June 17, 2013

tastefullyoffensive:

Thanks, Obama.

Alright, as we roll into the middle of President Jesus’ second term I know we’re all starting to wonder why he hasn’t magically fixed all the things, why instead the death toll in the Middle East continues to rise, death robots roam the skies with impunity, the US government continues to monitor its citizens Orwellian style (although this isn’t new—pretty sure phones were being tapped all over the place at least as far back as the sixties), immigration law and its enforcement is becoming the newest absurdist dark comedy, mass violence everywhere, and whatever the fuck is happening in Ohio--I’m starting to think maybe he’s not even Jesus, you guys, but just a guy and a politician with the best intentions, limited power to effect change, and not all the answers. 

But goddammit, he gave us a second season of Arrested Development.

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June 16, 2013
housingworksbookstore: In honor of Bloomsday, by Tom Gauld

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In honor of Bloomsday, by Tom Gauld

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June 15, 2013
THE COLLAGIST Issue Forty-Seven

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Issue Forty-Seven of The Collagist is now live!

In fiction this month, we have new stories by Susan Daitch, Jaclyn Watterson, John Domini, and Aaron Burch, as well as novel excerpts from Richard Melo’s Happy Talk and Jordaan Mason’s Skin Team.

In poetry, we have new work by April Naoko Heck, Alicia Jo Rabins, Benjamin Garcia, and Christian Anton Gerard. This month’s non-fiction comes from Gabe Durham, whose first book Fun Camp is out this month from Publishing Genius. 

Our book review section contains coverage of The Exiles by Matthew Kirkpatrick (reviewed by Lauren Perez), Balloon Pop Outlaw Black by Patricia Lockwood (reviewed by Carmen Gimenez Smith), Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic (reviewed by James Orbesen), and The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress by Scott Nadelson (reviewed by Tyler McMahon). 

Enjoy!

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May 30, 2013

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May 27, 2013
typegiggity: Nice find. #type #typography #typehunt (at Doc’s Architectural Salvage)

typegiggity:

Nice find. #type #typography #typehunt (at Doc’s Architectural Salvage)

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May 22, 2013
motherjones: smithsonianmag: Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science - Arthur Pollock - 1984 via atlasobscura !!

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smithsonianmag:

Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science - Arthur Pollock - 1984

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May 22, 2013
theparisreview: Hats off to our beloved contributor Lydia Davis, who was just awarded the Man Booker International Prize, Great Britain’s most prestigious prize for fiction. In the judges’ citation, Sir Christopher Ricks asked how best to describe Davis’s works: “Just how to categorise them? They have been called stories but could equally be miniatures, anecdotes, essays, jokes, parables, fables, texts, aphorisms or even apophthegms, prayers or simply observations.” Click here to read some of Davis’s most recent fiction in The Paris Review—or click here to receive our next issue, with five new stories (or miniatures, or anecdotes, or essays, or whatever you’d like to call them). Everything about this delights me, right down to the unusual pigmentation of Man Booker International Prize Winner Lydia Davis’s cat’s right eye.

theparisreview:

Hats off to our beloved contributor Lydia Davis, who was just awarded the Man Booker International Prize, Great Britain’s most prestigious prize for fiction. In the judges’ citation, Sir Christopher Ricks asked how best to describe Davis’s works: “Just how to categorise them? They have been called stories but could equally be miniatures, anecdotes, essays, jokes, parables, fables, texts, aphorisms or even apophthegms, prayers or simply observations.”

Click here to read some of Davis’s most recent fiction in The Paris Review—or click here to receive our next issue, with five new stories (or miniatures, or anecdotes, or essays, or whatever you’d like to call them).

Everything about this delights me, right down to the unusual pigmentation of Man Booker International Prize Winner Lydia Davis’s cat’s right eye.

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May 22, 2013
I couldn’t resist this piece of Arrested Development art

I couldn’t resist this piece of Arrested Development art

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May 10, 2013

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May 8, 2013
"These Are the Fables" by Amelia Gray

Vol. 13, No. 3 EDITORS NOTE If I’m the first person to tell you about Amelia Gray, we obviously dont have any Facebook friends in common. More than a few CLMP members have published her: Tin House,…

Recommended Reading has an Amelia Gray short story up this week. There’s your morning read sorted, you’re on your own for the afternoon.

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