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“Do Take Every Opportunity to Tell ‘The Army Story’”
“Here are some of the things you need to know.” Gooding handed Pilley a card, laminated to slip smoothly into and out of his wallet, with a bulleted list of do’s and don’ts. Pilley stared at the card like it…
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FUNNY WOMEN #85: Baby Logic
On the South side of Tucson near the Samsonite factory you’ll see a woman who’s usually naked except for a long T-shirt.
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Nudists do it better?
Carolyn Kellogg at LA Times Books asks: Is creativity better in the nude? “Could being unclothed help all artists make better art? There are people who live their lives as nudists, but as far as I know, no National Book…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We are ready to start taking pictures of dark matter. Which is important because maybe the warp drive will be here soon! Puffer fish are the tortured artists of the deep. Here some 1950s french medicine ads. Perhaps you’d like…
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“The Cost of Being a Kid in a Classic Adventure Novel”
Brent Cox, writer of the column “Adjusted for Inflation” on The Awl, investigates the inflated cost of adventuring like some of our favorite young-adult heroes. The premise is this: “Let’s look at the adventures and misadventures found in classic kids…
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American Protest Music Today
Who can resist an alliterative and engaging title like “Pussy Riot, Paul Ryan, and Protest Music in 2012 America?” Corey Beasley riffs on the contradictions of protest music in the current American pop music scene, or lack thereof despite a political climate…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to check in on developments in xtreme wheelchairs. Huntington’s Disease makes you smarter (before, you know, it takes effect)! This week the Rumpus has been digging the drawn out days blog. Let’s take a…
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#MuslimRage
Gawker responds to Newsweek‘s new cover article with “13 Powerful Images of Muslim Rage” as well as some “shocking” twitter posts that puts recent protests and sweeping generalizations in context. Brace yourself for more biting sarcasm than angry Muslims.
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Notable San Francisco-9/17-9/23
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 9/17: Litquake and Booksmith host Irvine Welsh for the launch of Skagboys, the author’s recent release and prequel to Trainspotting. Welsh will be in conversation with Alan Black, followed by a multimedia presentation, no-host…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/17-9/23
This week in NYC: MONDAY 9/17: Another Monday night party at Public Assembly—The Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Opening Night—with Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. 8pm, free. BookCourt asks Who Gives a Sh*t…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s talk about the ampersand. (via Gerry Canavan.) Animated cave paintings and the very first color films (huzzah I say)! We are all deep sea explorers now. This just in: the New York Public Library stacks have always been great.