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And there I was, last night, watching a YouTube livefeed of a state Senate filibuster, something I never thought I would do. -Roxane Gay Let’s start with Roxane Gay’s Let’s Recap What Happened in Texas and When Twitter Does What…
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Notable Los Angeles: 6/29-7/5
Saturday 6/29: Machine Project hosts Walking Places with D.J. Waldie, Sesshu Foster, and others. Free. RSVP for meet-up locations. East of Borneo present Summer Issues Cooperative, their newest exhibition that will be up for two weeks beginning today. Opening reception is at 6…
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Vintage Photos of First Pride Parades
Maria Popova showcases some classic photos of the first Pride parades around the world. Head over to Brain Pickings and give them a gander!
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Tomorrow in SF: Digital Literary Conference digi.lit
Bay Area literary nonprofit Litquake is holding its first-ever digital literary conference in San Francisco on June 29. It’s called digi.lit, and it aims to “demystify the new digital publishing landscape” with exhibitions and panel discussions on topics like publishing…
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OG DAD #20: ONE YEAR BIRTHDAY EDITION
Family Fun With Dora The Explorer And Her Troubling Butt-Button
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A Sci-Fi Anthology with a Mission
Racialicious links to a supercool Kickstarter for a project called Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. They describe it as “an anthology of radical science and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists,” and they only need…
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Rock Out to These Books About Music
Book Riot has a kickass playlist of books in which music is central. From the Scott Pilgrim series to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize–winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, they’re all books that use bands, records, and mix-tapes to strum at our…
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“Oprah Only Deals With Real Black Writers”
Hey Brandon, this is my fourteenth thorough revision for you in four years. I know I’m not changing your mind and that’s fine…My book is unapologetically an American race novel, among other things. I’m still not sure why you bought…
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The Greater Meaning of Goats and Gossip
If there’s anything worse than accidentally CCing someone on an unflattering email about them, it’s receiving an unflattering email you weren’t supposed to see. When Tim Kreider discovered such an email in his inbox (disparaging the choice he had made…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
No, Voyager hasn’t left the Solar System yet, but it will soon (probably)! We are not above linking to insane dog grooming competition photographs. Let us now discuss the sleepy raccoon dog. On brutalist architecture. It is deeply upsetting that…
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Here’s to dreaming, kid
Congratulations, Steve Almond! And welcome, Rosalie. It’s a strange world you’ve entered but, trust us, it has its moments. Read the hope-filled letter Steve wrote his newborn here.
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The Next Letter for Kids: Nolan O’Brien
The next Letter for Kids, going out Friday, June 28, is from Nolan O’Brien! Nolan is an Internet and technology guy turned cattle rancher, permaculture gardener, and holistic-management practitioner. He lives and works on TwoDot Land & Livestock Ranch in Harlowton,…