May 2012
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WHEN A PIECE COMES IN SUPER LATE BUT SUPER CLEAN
I love this Tumblr. And Streep GIFS. Win win. editorrealtalk:
May 14th
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May 10th
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Off On a Tangent: Serious Nonfiction in the... →
A worthwhile, if somewhat sobering look, at where biography may be in the years after everyone gets a Kindle and burns their paper books in a giant, “See You, PAST!” bonfire. offonatangent: This is a subject that’s been on my mind a lot these past few weeks, driven largely by the absolutely deserved attention cycle given to Robert Caro’s LBJ biography and volume 4, THE PASSAGE OF...
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2012
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Apr 29th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 18th
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“Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.”
–  Robert Caro (via labohrertorium)
Apr 18th
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Megan Amram: Ayn Randers →
meganamram: Dear Ayn, I’m dating a man who I think I love, but I’m afraid he’s having an affair. He comes home late, he acts suspiciously, and he even has red lipstick on his collar. Should I confront him or just hope for the best? - County Af-fair Dear County, Red lipstick? Your husband is a… Everything Megan Amram does is magic. This, especially so. 
Apr 16th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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March 2012
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Mar 7th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 2nd
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“All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about...”
– Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review (via millionsmillions)
Mar 1st
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February 2012
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Feb 29th
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Feb 10th
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More Downton Recappery →
Still doing this silly thing. But at least it provided me the chance to coin the term “Debbie Downton,” which I’m sure will be in rotation for at least the next few months. 
Feb 6th
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January 2012
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“There’s some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your...”
– Judith Thurman, Cleopatra’s Nose
Jan 29th
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Jan 26th
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I'm in love with these (via New York Public...
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Jan 26th
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Jan 22nd
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Obit on Parnassus/F. Scott Fitzgerald/The New...
Death before forty’s no bar. Lo! These had accomplished their feats; Chatterton, Burns, and Kit Marlowe, Byron and Shelley and Keats. Death, the eventual censor, Lays for the forties, and so Took off Jane Austen and Spenser, Stephenson, Hood, and poor Poe. You’ll leave a better-lined wallet By reaching the end of your rope After fifty, like Shakespeare and Smollett Thackeray, Dickens,...
Jan 21st
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December 2011
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Dec 16th
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Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on...
towirr: A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d be good to see them articulated. But...
Dec 14th
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What we talk about when we talk about Joan...
A: happy diddy's birthday!
R: i am eating a whole cake for it!
A: it's not rosie o'donnell's birthday
A: you should order a cake from payard. eat a sliver
A: and then fret that you got the wrong one and that nobody will come to your party
A: and then throw it away
R: see I like to celebrate Joan by eating all the things she doesn't eat
R: its the kids in africa theory
R: joan is starving somewhere so i better eat an entire pizza
Dec 5th
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Jessica Coen: Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing... →
jessicacoen: An abridged list, in no particular order. Edmund Wilson poststructuralism the Situationists “extrainstitutional intellectualism” bourbon “proletarian meta-narrative” the Lost Generation Cornell Sacre Coeur Jonathan Lethem The Paris Review paradigm Jacques Derrida French…
Dec 2nd
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November 2011
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Nov 18th
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October 2011
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Oct 29th
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