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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer
Compare yourself to a raw wound. Explain that everyone else is one too, whether they know it or not.
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Weekly Geekery
If Klingon is a living language then Latin sure as hell isn’t dead. “I think therefore I am,” but for animals. Solving history’s mysteries with poop. The Internet is ruining the planet in more ways than you think.
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How to Buy Heidi Julavits’s Self on eBay
Author Heidi Julavits’s predominant self is hiding inside this matryoshka doll. Over at the Paris Review, in an interview with Leanne Shapton, Julavits answers each question with an eBay auction listing. What listing would you choose to answer the query, “What…
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Buy Robert Heinlein’s Bed
“How would you like to own Heinlein’s ‘second-best bed’?” asks this eBay listing, which is apparently legitimate. The bed was designed and built by the sci-fi writer himself, who built all kinds of nifty conveniences into it, including “a drawer,…
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Where’d You Get Those Shoes?
Some eBay sellers bare their souls, like a woman who went on a shopping spree when her marriage was on the rocks. “The husband was just starting to roam, things were going south very quickly, so now I had 6…