July 2012
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Pray, Love, and especially EAT...but you have to... →
In honor of National Culinarians Day, take a look back at Elizabeth Gilbert’s discussion with John Hodgman about her newly published cookbook, At Home on the Range, originally written by her great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Considered far ahead of its time, Potter espoused the importance of farmer’s markets and ethnic food, derided preservatives and culinary shortcuts, and...
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The Penguin Press: Are these the 32 "Great... →
thepenguinpress:
The Guardian is hoping you’ll say yes, and then help them winnow the shortlist down to one. They explain their somewhat controversial criteria here.
William Faulkner
Saul Bellow
Philip Roth
John Updike
John Steinbeck
Sinclair Lewis
Toni Morrison
Ernest Hemingway
Edith Wharton
Cormac…
Give us your final picks!
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Paul Holdengräber to be Interviewed at BAM! →
LIVE’s director and interviewer Paul Holdengräber will switch roles and play the interviewee at BAM’s “On Truth (and Lies)” as he examines with Simon Critchley the art of conversation, digression, and sustained dialogue. Click here for more information.
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If you sense some ideas knocking around in your brain that are stubborn about making themselves clear, go for a run! Many great authors had literary epiphanies while running.
“Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems...
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Hipsters at the Louvre and Illuminated Hollywood... →
Past and present are brought together as artists turn old marble sculptures into flannel-clad hipsters and popular movies are rendered in the style of traditional Ottoman illuminated manuscripts. Such humorous anachronisms bring back to life what might otherwise be considered dead traditions from the past. Plus, they’re incredibly entertaining to look at.
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“The space that we’re looking through is 9-dimensional. If you build a...”
– Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life : NPR (via nprfreshair)
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“Like Mailer, Eggers seems ready to take America by the scruff of its neck and...”
– Pico Iyer reviews Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King.
Watch/listen to Pico Iyer discuss his own relationship with his chosen literary father, Graham Greene here…
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WatchAnd, lastly, W.S. Merwin on the LIVE stage on October 22, 2010.
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Animals by Frank O’Hara
Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth it’s no use worrying about Time but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves and turned some sharp corners the whole pasture looked like our meal we didn’t need speedometers we could manage cocktails out of ice and water i...
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Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes? by Tracy K. Smith
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After dark, stars glisten like ice, and the distance they span Hides something elemental. Not God, exactly. More like Some thin-hipped glittering Bowie-being—a Starman Or cosmic ace hovering, swaying, aching to make us see. And what would we do, you and I, if we could know for sure
That someone was there squinting through the dust,...
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My Mother Contemplating Her Gun By Nick Flynn
One boyfriend said to keep the bullets
locked in a different room.
Another urged
clean it
or it could explode. Larry
thought I should keep it loaded
under my bed,
you never know.
I bought it
when I didn’t feel safe. The barrel
is oily,
...
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The Yellow Bowl By Rachel Contreni Flynn
If light pours like water into the kitchen where I sway with my tired children,
if the rug beneath us is woven with tough flowers, and the yellow bowl on the table
rests with the sweet heft of fruit, the sun-warmed plums, if my body curves over the babies,
and if I am singing, then loneliness has lost its shape, and this quiet is only quiet.
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Small Prayer By Weldon Kees
Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes. Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen, That time may find its sound again, and cleanse Whatever it is that a wound remembers After the healing ends.
Today, we'll be posting some poetry.
For when your heart starts to feel too heavy.
Turn of the Century Posters →
flowersandjazz:
Over 1,000 American and European posters printed from 1893 through the first years of the 20th-century. The collection represents the inception and heyday of magazine, book, and newspaper posters of the last decade of the 19th-century, and well into the 20th-century.
Psssst… helpful decorating your home or office tip: you can purchase any of these items as high-quality...
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To celebrate Andy Borowitz’s The Borowitz Report and its new home at The New Yorker, here is Borowitz at LIVE in 2006 in a totally improvised and spontaneous program in which he answers the audience’s questions about what the future holds:
Q: So, how does the war in Iraq end? Is it the Sunnis, the Shiites, and the Kurds, or is it NASCAR, or is it helicopters taking the Americans...
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NYPL's Lunch Hour NYC: Your Plans for Tonight:... →
lunchhournyc:
In celebration of the glorious Restaurant Week’s 20th anniversary, join us for a panel tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. We will be delighting over the evolution of dining in the city with the help of Tim Zagat, Rebecca Federman (co-curator of Lunch…
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Particularly enjoying Harper's July Findings →
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Book Deal of the Day:
rachelfershleiser:
“New York Public Library Rare Books Librarian Jessica Pigza’s HANDMADE AT THE LIBRARY, in which readers will learn how to use the riches of libraries, both online and off, to inspire all manner of craft/design/DIY endeavors…”
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!
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