August 2010
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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On... →
Aug 26th
Does knowing the origin of a word help with the way a word is understood or is it just a piece trivia?
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A Bookfuturist Manifesto →
infoneer-pulse: The first thing to understand about bookfuturism is that “book” modifies “futurism” as much as the other way around. So bookfuturists aren’t just people promoting the future of the book; they’re also a different kind of futurist, the way a cubo-futurist painting like Duchamp’s “Nude Descending A Staircase” is different, or Afro-futurism was/is different from typically white...
Aug 13th
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Aug 13th
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“The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories...”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via mwfogleman)
Aug 13th
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Aug 11th
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Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
Aug 10th
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Aug 8th
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Aug 8th
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Sean Penn Might Play Editor Maxwell Perkins →
Aug 8th
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Aug 8th
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Outside the Whale →
Rushdie vs. Orwell
Aug 8th
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“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”
– Aldous Huxley (via libraryland)
Aug 8th
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Inception was stolen from Scrooge McDuck →
Aug 7th
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Crappy Story Idea #8
Wow, this could also be a crappy movie starring Colin Farrell or Mark Wahlberg: Quin loves this boy from his old neighborhood with whom he liked to play soccer. Quin always loved to go back and play soccer with this boy because it reminds him of when his life was less complicated. Now that he his a gangster, Quin has little to keep him grounded. Until one day the boy is shot in senseless street...
Aug 7th
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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
–  Carl Sagan (via earlyfrost) (via cocoku) (via witchwife)
Aug 7th
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“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via booklover206)
Aug 5th
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Aug 5th
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mouseburger rolodex: linguistic terrorism →
“This is a great problem we have with art because there is this whole theory that art is a linguistic activity. The reason Conceptual artists deal with linguistic abstractions is because we live in a society which is ruled by linguistic terrorism. We are ruled through language, through…
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