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Kissing the Mask
Get a load of William T. Vollmann’s new title: Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender...
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Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley is a super-hero of sorts; book publicist by day and best-selling author by night. For her day job, Sloane works at Vintage Books as the publicist for big dogs like Joan Didion, Toni...
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We’re Band-Aids, not groupies
This past year, not-for-profit art center Apexart has started putting together readings of literary up and comers, titled “The Almost Famous Reading Series.” On Saturday, the new series presents...
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Librarians Rule
In honor of Women’s History Month, each March, the librarians of the New York Public Library present a month-long series of blog posts highlighting the amazing women they’ve discovered through the...
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Punching Tom Hanks
I love self-help and instructional/how-to books. The ones I read usually involve something like getting in touch with my soul and/or how to make chicken soup, but I’m always open to other methods of...
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Hard Core Books
My new favorite blog is Bookshelf Porn, created by Anthony Dever. It makes me feel better that I had over 40+ boxes of books when I recently moved and makes me think that daydreaming about what my...
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Rebecca Keith
To contain it so gently The first time I saw him he had barrettes in his hair, wore a huge hoodie and big pants and looked like a cross between a raver and a boy in a fairy tale. The last time I saw...
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The Ferris Wheel
Jane is sucking on her bottom lip. She does this when she is concentrating or afraid. When Jane was 8 her father fell off a cliff when he was hiking with her mother. He reached down for his water...
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Oversoul
Aside from his day job teaching writing at NYU, Mitchell S. Jackson interviews hip-hop royalty for SMOOTH Magazine and is the subject of a documentary that also includes “Freeway” Rick Ross (the...
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Front Seat Freestyle
Down at Portland’s Central Precinct, down three floors, three cops sit slack-jawed staring at the biggest flat screen TV I have ever seen. A deep TV narrator voice says, “Lil’ Rick’s crippin’ had gone...
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