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Requited love for Brain Pickings
Brain Pickings continues the conversation on Kurt Vonnegut. It all started with the recent publication of We are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works followed by our interview with Vonnegut’s daughter Nanette. In ongoing musings on authors in love,…
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McSweeney’s Saves Thanksgiving
Already overwhelmed by thoughts of Thanksgiving? Want a menu that teeters on the line of conventional and culturally innovative? Look no further than McSweeney’s Thanksgiving Gallimaufry! The online booklet features recipes from their cookbooks, At Home on the Range by…
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“Who the hell is interested, anyway?”
In 1957, Truman Capote had done it again. Written for The New Yorker, “The Duke in His Domain” dissolved the absolute mystery surrounding Marlon Brando. And of course, it was Capote, and The New Yorker, so the writing was rich as chocolate…
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Film: not just for popcorn anymore
Whether you are obsessed with film and its theoretical and historical aspects, or simply enjoy overhearing a brilliant conversation between two intensely analytical people, boy, have we got a treat for you: Greil Marcus interviewing David Thomson about everything from…
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Playing Telephone with Poetry
It was inevitable, in our day and age, we guess, that the world of classical translation would look over at the world of the colloquial, bite-sized, social network-friendly format and go, “hm…” Over at The Millions, Magdalena Edwards braves Brooklyn,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fun fact: robots did not help fight the Russian Revolution. They are however infiltrating the Chinese workforce. I am a proud endorser of any and all swing based art. A little university library porn for you. And now some 1930s…
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A Strange Object Is Born
Callie Collins and Jill Meyers, formerly of American Short Fiction, are starting a new project together: “A Strange Object is an independent press based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to publishing surprising, heartbreaking fiction in strange packages. We’re talking about fiction…
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It’s the thought that counts
We recently got some love from The Well-Read Wife! Mandy includes a membership to our book club on her list of 10 Things To Buy A Book Lover. Thanks, Mandy! Finally, shy bookworms everywhere can stop getting jars of cheese popcorn…
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Queens Library Undaunted by Hurricane Sandy
What do you do when a devastating hurricane prevents your community from going to the library? You bring the library to the people with “a mobile book bus” and “a rapid response team of librarians.” Librarians: dedicated to their jobs…
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In the cage, the Music soothes
Funding for the arts is hard to come by these days. Ever wonder what it’s like for the folks in prison, and those who work with prisoners, who can see the positive effects of music, drawing, painting, writing and all…
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Behind the Scenes of the Silver Screen
Anne Helen Petersen’s Scandals of Classic Hollywood column is consistently one of the best features at The Hairpin, even for those among us who have never heard of any of these actors because we barely have the attention span to…
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The Blue Velvet Project Goes to Argentina
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes’s The Blue Velvet Project analyzes in marvelous depth 152 still frames from David Lynch’s classic arthouse film. The series, which originally appeared at Filmmaker magazine’s site, has been translated into Spanish as a book for Argentina’s…