May 2013
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I think of you all day long, so try to get some... →
The other meaning of “Is fiction in trouble?” is “Are people like us who like...
– The Rumpus interview with Kevin Smokler, author of Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School.
Cosmetic surgery trends show how the female body... →
Hadley Freeman: In case you missed the memo, upper arms are the new trophy female body part, the one that signifies belonging to a certain class
April 2013
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Those Winter Sundays
Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently...
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News items are bubbles popping on the surface of a deeper world.
– From News is bad for you, by Rolf Dobelli in The Guardian. ’News pieces are specifically engineered to interrupt you. They are like viruses that steal attention for their own purposes. News makes us shallow thinkers.’
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Later that weekend, in a Q and A session, author and activist Alice Walker was...
– Alice Walker quoted by Bim Adewunmi in her article ‘The inconsistency of Femen’s imperialist “one size fits all” attitude’. (via feministquotes)
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March 2013
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There is really nothing more to say – except why. But since why is difficult to...
– Toni Morrison
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