The Week in Essays
We packed a lot of great stuff into this truncated week we just had. Here’s a recap: Lauren Fox takes on the triumvirate of love, friendship, and betrayal. Looking back…
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Bookshelf Bonanza
Peter Knox discusses how bookshelves provide a glimpse into an individual’s personality for The Guardian. Knox values these book organizers for a myriad of reasons, one of which being that a person’s book display…
How to Be Friends With Another Woman
“It’s okay if most of your friends are guys but if you champion this as a commentary on the nature of female friendships, well, soul search a little.” Rumpus essays…
Abrams At The Millions
The Millions featured David Abrams in their Post-40 Bloomer column and chronicle the 49-year-olds long road to literary success. Fobbit, Abrams’s first novel, came out from Grove/Atlantic on Sept. 4 and…
Exotic Dancing Tax-Exempt Art?
Yesterday, an Albany, NY based strip club argued for exemption from certain state taxes because its dancers are performance artists. The club, Nite Moves, owes the state about $124,000 in…
New Photo of Emily Dickinson Discovered
The newly found daguerrotype, taken around 1859, is only the second known photograph of Dickinson and features the poet with her newly widowed friend. The first photo, from 1847, is…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s time to meet SETI’s first artist in residence. Holy cow, look at this sting-ray x-ray. Let’s celebrate the John Cage centennial (uh, a couple days ago) with edible drawings.…
100 Years of Bookmobiles
Here’s an LA Times slideshow of bookmobiles of past and present, starting with Germany’s ultra-mod ROBI bookmobile, which was created to serve the library-less towns in the Heilbronn area. According…
Putin Flies Away Home
Vladimir Putin guided a flock of Siberian cranes to their winter habitat this week by piloting a motorized hang glider while dressed in a Siberian crane costume. This marks a resurgence…
Brown’s Modernist Journals Project
Greer Mansfield of Bookslut checks out the Modernist Journals Project, a literary site launched in 1995 by Brown University that acts as a digital library of magazines associated with Modernism.…
Himanshu Suri
Himanshu (Heems) Suri is a former Wall Street employee, one third of Das Racist, the head of Greedhead Music, and all around thoughtful person. Forbes has interviewed Himanshu about his aforementioned…
New App Alerts Online Shoppers To The Products Of Child Labor
Michael J. Coren sheds light on aVOID, a plugin that tells online shoppers exactly which items are products of child labor, for Co.EXIST: “Now you can do your part. A new…