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Links I Like
On Monday night at 826LA, J. Ryan Stradal and McSweeney’s organized a reading to celebrate Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Victoria Chang’s The Boss. Those two books are now on my to-read list. Although that to-read list gets longer…
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Photogenic Alchemy: Instagram for the Mad Scientist
If you ever wanted to be either a photographer or a mad scientist when you grew up, you may be jealous of how New York artist Matthew Cetta has been spending his time lately. For his current project, Photogenic Alchemy,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why hello there new adorable mammal. Let’s all check out some of the new UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Moving sidewalks are (yesterday’s) the future! A brief history of “hello”. Here are some great spiders for you.
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George Saunders’ Syracuse Graduation Speech to Be Published
In 2005, David Foster Wallace delivered his famous commencement speech to Kenyon’s graduating class, which was notorious for invoking the story about two young fish unable to recognize they are swimming in water. The speech was met with such widespread admiration…
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The Last City I Loved: Arusha
The city was in the margins, and I came to love it slowly. I loved it the way you love a fever dream, its wicked strangeness.
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The confining resonance of a writer’s name
A writer of recognized fame in a niche, cliquey genre probably feels like Ashton Kutcher did the morning after Hollywood’s premiere of Dude Where’s My Car: happy, thankful, and proud of the job he did, yet claustrophobic in the pigeonhole…
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Genre on the Mind
Is the wiring of our brains related to how we write as individuals? Joyce Dyer thinks so. One student in the summer group said she could retain nothing of the substance of her dreams, but only their sensations. What a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Head is in outer space today. NPR pines (and sees reason to maybe hope) for real big alien life. On the other hand, it turns out the Milky Way is in pretty fit shape. X-rays of space suits. I don’t…
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First Time Author, Two New Books
Kiese Laymon is a first-time author with two new books out. We have linked to essays by him in the recent past. Both of these essays (“You are the Second Person” and “The Worst of White Folks”) are included in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It brings me so much pleasure knowing there is an impassioned debate in the scientific community about what jumping into a black hole would do to you. The time has come for a roofie detecting straw. Chinese copy towns continue…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is very important to remember to put elevators in your skyscrapers. You guys, I’m so excited about the Hyperloop. The solar bell is neat too. Now let us discuss bee colors of North America. The time has come to…
