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Hey, So A Book Deal Went Down This Week
There’s been a lot of grumbling in my local area about a certain Book Deal, the astronomical sum it amounted to, its potential to displace sums that could be allocated…
Language is Simpler Than Previously Believed
A new Cornell study indicates that language is made of small sequential structures that string together to make meaning. The study may debunk the 50 year old belief that language…
I Don’t See You
“I Don’t See You,” Tim N. Taylor’s essay on the racism he witnessed while coming of age in Waterloo, Iowa, made The Top 5 Longreads of the Week. Thanks, Longreads!
Women Writers on Arabian Nights
Erica Wagner interviews Hanan Al-Shayk, Lebanese author, and Marina Warner, cultural historian, on what the modern world can learn from 1,001 Nights for Guernica Magazine. The three feminist-minded writers champion…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes you just need to see some baby cuttlefish to get you through. It is vital that we help these scientists build their meth lab. Here are all the Indian…
West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols’ New Book
Deadspin has provided a snippet of Damien Echols’ Life After Death, a chronicle of his experience on death row after being wrongfully convicted of murder in 1994 as a part of…
Agreement Reached in Google Books Case
Several major publishers, including Penguin Groups and McGraw-Hill, and Google announced this morning that they have reached an agreement in the Google Books copyright infringement case. The private settlement brings…
Stowaway Giveaway
The Atavist has collaborated with award-winning comics artist Josh Neufeld and investigative journalist Tori Marlan to create Stowaway, the true tale of an Ethiopian orphan’s journey to America. “In Stowaway,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Best local news? Woman riding manatee spurs police hunt. Swedish movie posters of the 20s and 30s (are great). Schrodinger cat remains defiantly alive. Can we please make the aerotrain…
When We Allow the Imagination to Roam Free
At The New Yorker, Saturday Rumpus editor Michelle Dean explores what Mitt Romney might learn from Wallace Stevens. “This embedded idea, that there was something liberating in the elimination of…
BookCrossing
If you’re into the extremely rad tradition of sharing books, which we know you are, you’ll probably be thrilled by BookCrossing… BookCrossing is a social media network that facilitates the…