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After 65 Years, “The Lottery” Endures
Since its publication in 1948, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson has become an American classic, appearing in high school classrooms, as well as in the hands and on the computers of people around the nation. On the 65th anniversary of the…
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A Brief Look at Other Victories and Defeats
From SB5 in Texas to the Voting Rights Act to the defeat of DOMA, this has been a bittersweet week. But among all of the apprehension and excitement, a few things happened that you may have missed. We don’t usually…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, PayPal is following you into space. Here are all the rivers of America. Here is a compendium of lost words. Metafilter is there for you when you need examples of secret infrastructure. Rare Posters is your tumblr for…
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An Oral History of Unsung Queer Latino Immigrants
The new issue of SF Weekly features the life stories, translated from their own words, of four gay and transgender Latin American immigrants who came to San Francisco in the 1980s. The pasts they left behind are as dissimilar as…
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“As Long As I’ve Been Alive I Have Known That I Am Going to Die”
At five, at six, I knew that the cemetery was full of dead bodies rotting away in boxes under the ground, and I knew that I would be one of those bodies under the ground one day, too. I could…
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Shakespeare’s Plays: Fact or Fiction?
Has Shakespeare become so intertwined with our culture that we find it hard to separate myth from reality? Dan Jones at the Telegraph writes about how many of Shakespeare’s historical portraits are tinged with his own biases and those of…
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Victories for Pro-Choicers, Gay Marriage; Defeat for Voting Rights
As you’re probably aware, we’ve been covering Texas’s grotesque anti-abortion bill SB5, and we’re overjoyed to report it did not pass. Texas State Senator (and now folk hero) Wendy Davis filibustered the bill for close to thirteen hours under the state…
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SF: Phone Booth Sessions
Part four of San Francisco’s Phone Booth Sessions will be taking place tomorrow! Readings, performances, & screenings by Jarett Kobek, Janey Smith, Dean Smith, Davenzane Hayes, Dorothy Tunnell, M Kitchell, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, featuring music from Andy Tisdall. Tomorrow, Wednesday,…
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Lunch with Orson
“They’re so busy, this would be a great day to send a dish back to the chef.” Vulture.com shares transcripts of director Henry Jaglom’s taped conversations with Orson Welles at Los Angeles’s Ma Maison. Here’s a taste:
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists want to help you pee (this is really important, I’m sorry for being juvenile). Yes, abandoned theme parks are still my favorite. Polish film posters are pretty great though too. The Telegraph brings you photos of Edwardian-era drunk women.…
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The Empty-Nest Yard Sale
Talking to your kid can be as nerve-wracking as going in for a big job interview. And it’s also like interviewing a temperamental actor or rock star—you’re afraid if you ask the wrong thing, they’ll tear off their lapel mic…
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Mapping our stories
The new app Placing Literature helps you explore our world through the eyes of the literary. Reintegrate, an initiative of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, is funding the project as a collaboration between the art of literature and…