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Rediscovering the Forgotten

The drive to digitize ancient manuscripts is growing quickly, and in the process, scholars are discovering works they never realized they had. The current technology is good enough that scholars can...

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Saturday Morning Links

Just in time for your next dinner party: mermaids are considered halal. In case you were wondering.Here’s a really cool museum idea: 80 years of patent models.The Wall Street Journal reminds us why R....

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Raymond Carver: Vicarious Slumming for the WSJ

It’s Raymond Carver night at the Rumpus! Moments after I wrote and scheduled the preceding post, I saw this tweet from the Library of America:“WSJ on Raymond Carver: ‘There must be few story...

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Breaking: Writers Are Eccentric And Enjoy Bathtubs, Charts

The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed a bunch of writers to see how they do it. Of course, they called it “How to Write a Great Novel,” but I’m not sure if trying to copy exactly what these...

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A Necessarily Incomplete But Hopefully Helpful List That Proves The Slush...

A couple of weeks ago, I ranted against a Wall Street Journal article that proclaimed “The Slush Pile is Dead.” The slush pile, for those who are unfamiliar, is the name for the large amount of...

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Lucky Peach Y’all

McSweeney’s and David Chang’s new hunger-inducing venture, Lucky Peach, is out now. Check out the McSweeney’s attention in the Wall Street Journal. The first issue is ramen-themed. Being that there’s...

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Letter Play

“The challenge is simple: Create an image from a word, using only the letters contained in the word itself—and using only the shapes of the letters, without adding extra parts.”Facebook creative...

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Bestsellers, Worst Ethics

Reading bestsellers lists can be baffling. You know the whole world isn’t going to spring for literary fiction or erudite essay collections all the time, but sometimes a book seems so bland and...

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Well, This Is Certainly One Way to Give Advice

On a blog for the Wall Street Journal (where else?), Emily Oster gives advice based on economic theory. For example:There is a model in economics called the “sS” model. It’s not often applied to...

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We Can Rebuild Ourselves by Reading

Libraries without Borders unveiled its latest project at the New York Public Library. They’re shipping a “library in a box,” or Idea Boxes, to refugee camps.The idea is that food, water and shelter...

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Baijiu on the Rocks

Baijiu is a distilled firewater somewhat like vodka crossed with a non-apple Calvados, with a distinctive nose.Have you tried baijiu, the world’s most consumed liquor? Chances are high that you have...

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Tehran Taxi Library

A taxi driving husband-and-wife team converted their cab into a library with more than 40 titles, reports The Wall Street Journal. Mehdi Yazdany and Sarvenaz Heraner sell about 30 books a day, but also...

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Read Slowly, Read Better

Reading is healthy, but not all reading is created equally. Advocates of slow reading suggest that dedicated periods of thirty to forty-five minutes away from other distractions can lower stress and...

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The 24 Amtrak Residents

Earlier this year, Alexander Chee tweeted about his enjoyment of writing on trains. Amtrak jumped aboard and decided to launch an Amtrak residency program granting writers free, multi-day train rides...

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Robots Take Over the Library

In the first step of what will undoubtedly be the robot uprising, two robots will be joining the staff of the Westport, Connecticut library. The robots will primarily assist in teaching coding, but...

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Word of the Day: Esemplasy

(n.); unification; to make into one; the unifying power of imagination; accredited to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)“Austen is far from superficial … Her books are intimate and compelling. She has...

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A Wrinkle in the Wrinkle

The Wall Street Journal has an article that questions the traditional interpretations of A Wrinkle in Time:Ms. Voiklis said she wanted readers to know the book wasn’t a simple allegory of communism....

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Feminism in the Family

The Wall Street Journal interviews biographer Charlotte Gordon about Mary Shelley’s relationship with her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and how her mother’s feminism permeated the future Frankenstein...

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The Rumpus Interview with Erik Larson

Erik Larson’s new book, Dead Wake, reconstructs the moments leading up to one of the Great War’s most shocking massacres: the sinking of the civilian-packed Lusitania by Germany’s Unterseeboot-20. It’s...

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Sound Takes: Blood Moon

Ancient OceanBlood Moon (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)Ambient music is a fart in an elevator for some people. Whether it’s distaste for background noise or a trained expectation of action when you press...

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