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Joined February 2013
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On Graham Harman's attempt to elevate H.P. Lovecraft to the pantheon of great writers: noggs.typepad.com/thereading…
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220 pages is a perfectly civilized length for a novel.
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This picture was intended to illustrate the "horrors" of suffrage, but damn if that doesn't look like an awesome bar
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With Amazon down, how will Americans sate their famously vast hunger for books?
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Theater is a human compact between bodies, breathing the same air, smelling the same smells, vowing to dream the same dream.
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"Blake came to believe that Milton's soul was reincarnated in him to recant the errors Milton committed in Paradise Lost."
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Grow up in the 80s and you run the risk of one day discovering you're writing a book with the overall form of a power ballad.
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I state the obvious not because you're slow but because I am. I write in order to misunderstand less.
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Spy stories, John Le Carre's George Smiley and moral ambiguity: “The Unromantic Spy” medium.com/geek-empire/5298c… Thanks to @evanatmedium
Aesthetic resistance has become our one remaining moral option and civic duty—Nadezhda Tolokonnikova nplusonemag.com/pussy-riot-d… @freepussyriot
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New blog post: why does S look like F, and other mysteries of early modern texts explained. resobscura.blogspot.com/2013… #paleography
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No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep. - 14th Corollary of Atwood's General Law of Dynamic Negative
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@NotableReader of course, Schulz!
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@NotableReader were Calvino & Gombrowicz the 20th century's great cosmologists? what others? Borges...
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Other thing I love: Kids (and adults) who know how to flip pages in books that don't yet belong to them. I don't wanna be the mean lady.
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Someone is holding aloft, amongst the myriad signs at this Trayvon Martin rally in Union Square, a copy of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man."
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Because it can, the Internet offers you the entire text of "À la recherche du temps perdu" in a single page: bit.ly/ftXrwZ
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Song of Roland, suggested by @NotableReader (great summary!)
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So let's play this game: you suggest stories and I pick a few and try to make them in Storyteller, posting the resulting strip image...
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If the feds are tracking a bookstore owner's mail, they are recording his customers' reading habits. nyti.ms/19YMHY3
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