June 2012
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I'm thinking hard about this.
S: What if facial hair grew on your lip? Like the follicles were actually on your lips as well and it just grew all over your mouth?
A: You already talked about this today. Why would you ever talk about this weird scenario twice in one day?
Jun 28th
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Jun 26th
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Scribner Books: One Great Asking the Advice of... →
10-10-95 Dear Don, Since it’s clear from your letters that you’re a person nice, and since it’s well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice, I again want to implore you not to feel any obligation to read the BM any faster¹ than your own schedule and… What this is cool.
Jun 23rd
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Jun 23rd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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“The dirty little secret is no longer sex; the dirty little secret is hatred and...”
– Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84 (via theparisreview)
Jun 18th
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Jun 18th
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Jun 18th
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Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 12th
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Jun 10th
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Jun 9th
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Jun 8th
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Jun 7th
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“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...”
– Ray Bradbury [Bradbury on Fresh Air] (via nprfreshair)
Jun 6th
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TAO LIN TUMBLR PRESENCE: To celebrate that there’s... →
heheheheheheheeheheheehehe: To celebrate that there’s discussion re The New Sincerity (I don’t know what The New Sincerity means for other people and don’t have a personal definition for it) here is a short story titled “Sincerity” from my 2007 story-collection Bed which is out-of-print, I think (via Amazon). Hey this is kind of cool, all of it.
Jun 6th
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“Bradbury wouldn’t have made it today as a writer in New York; he was too rough,...”
– Our own associate editor Stephen Andrew Hiltner’s tribute to Ray Bradbury (via theparisreview)
Jun 6th
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“The back-and-forth between the campaign’s Tumblr and its followers, and the...”
– Take 1: Why the Obama campaign is so good at Tumblr. (via motherjones)
Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 2nd
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“Happiness schmappiness. I think the pursuit of it, and our focus on it, is...”
– Psychologist Dan Gottlieb. (via nprfreshair)
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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“There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he...”
– Robert Bringhurst (“Essay on Adam”)
Jun 2nd
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“When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant’s competency...”
– From a legislative amendment introduced (and passed! but then removed) by New Mexico state senator Duncan Scott.  Read more here. (via wnycradiolab)
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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“Here I want to delve into what I’m calling hipster anti-racism. It’s a term I’m...”
– If I’ve ever seen a companion piece to the R’s analyses on hipster racism, this is it! Check out Janani Balasubramanian’s church-fan waving post on hipster anti-racism on the R today.  (via racialicious)
Jun 1st
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“All of these examples are signs of a broader cultural shift that has blurred the...”
– Katherine Sharpe (“Prozac Campus: The Next Generation,” The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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“The obvious explanation is that every time a woman tries to tell a joke, an...”
– Lindy West, on those bogus studies that come out every couple years saying men are funnier than women. (via washingtonpoststyle)
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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