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“The First Boy To See Something Electric In Me”
For smashing new website The Toast, Anne Helen Petersen writes about the particular exuberance of half-childish first love and—this is not a spoiler, it’s announced in the piece’s second paragraph—how she was wrenched into adulthood when her own first love died…
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“There Is No Prejudice Here Against Women”
There are more women in executive jobs today than there were fifteen years ago, five years ago, or a year ago, and men’s reluctance to give them executive rank seems to be diminishing. That is not to say that the…
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The Unmade House
We never moved. We just faded out of the house. Let me clarify what I mean when I say “we”…
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A New Way to Read Comics
Only a small percentage of blind people commonly use Braille—and that number drops even further when it comes to reading comic books. With a new Braille-based comic book, Danish designer Phillipp Meyer may have overcome some of the limitations that…
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Ted Wilson’s Letter in the Internet
Our Letters in the Mail subscription service offers letters penned by authors to thousands of people around the globe. We asked our columnist Ted Wilson to write a letter, and upon reading it, we decided it was too important to…
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Notable San Francisco 7/8-7/13
Monday 7/8: The SHOUT is on in the East Bay, join local raconteurs and submit your own story for a six-minute wildcard spot on stage. 7:30 sliding scale, Grand Lake Coffee. Tuesday 7/9: The Rumpus teams up with Quiet Lightning…
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Not Your Average Mexican Tourist Destination
I can’t afford a $3,000 American tooth implant, but luckily, I’m spending this summer at my Somali aunt and uncle’s house in Yuma, Arizona—a town only ten miles away from Los Algodones, Mexico, where a new tooth costs $1,000. If…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
As the last of the smoke from the 4th of July fireworks drifts away, you rub your eyes, and there in front of you, you see…the weekend Rumpus roundup. On Saturday, Yumi Sakugawa provided some practical instructions for actions you…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Russian Billionaires will (try and) outlive us all. Important news: birds are hella smart. We are still paying for exactly one Civil War veteran’s pension. Here we go… Sky Deutschland is going to start broadcasting advertisements directly into passenger’s heads.…
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Links I Like
I described my body in terms of my illness. My body was only chronic muscle and joint pain. It was 10-plus pain and exhausted. This was when I was bedridden, desperate and my mind was telling me, This is it.…
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Notable Los Angeles 7/6-7/12
Saturday 7/6: Two-Headed Beast, a story telling show hosted by Jake Weisman and Dave Ross. 8 p.m. at Stories Books and Cafe. Sunday 7/7: Sumarr Reading Series presents Sumarr III. Featuring readings and performances from Kirsty Singer, Chris Muniz, Vanessa…
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From Your Mother
Sylvia Plath is known as a writer and a poet, but she almost became a visual artist instead. Plath’s daughter, Frieda Hughes, who is also a painter and a poet, has created a book out of more than forty of…