February 2012
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“Lord Crawley reminds him that he does plan to involve him in running the estate...”
– Kelly Conaboy’s Downton recaps at Videogum are a thing I am enjoying.
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“Like, I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace there’s a...”
– Ke$ha is wonderful
“the process of memorialization often proceeds like this: following the give and...”
– Ari Kelman, From Civil War to Civil Rights, The Times Literary Supplement
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“Weerasethakul is fascinated by phase changes, by transformation, the effect of...”
– Christine Smallwood, Apichatpong “Joe” Weerasethakul, n+1: N1FR Issue 2 (Incidentally this new Gold Panda track, Thailand Chord Droner, came up in my feed while I was reading the essay, and I listened to it.)
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“No piety can long escape inclusion in one or another of Mr. Gingrich’s five or...”
– Joan Didion, The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich, The New York Review of Books, 10 August 1995
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“Do not mention it, in any class, ever.”
– Kevin Zucker, Seemingly Innocuous Assignments That Will Lead to Improbable Calamities: Cautionary Notes for Teachers, Unfortunately Based on Personal* Experience (from Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment, Paper Monument) Viennese Actionism ♥
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“Who among us is noble enough not to envy Lena Dunham?… Jealousy was a...”
– Elizabeth Gumport takes on the commonplaces that got repeated about Tiny Furniture, n+1: N1FR Issue 2
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“The drama queens are a little more dangerous, because sooner or later you’ll...”
– Some Advice for Young People | The Awl
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“What I think that the example of Schwyzer shows, though, is that suspicion is...”
– Adam Kotsko on Hugo Schwyzer and the male feminist
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“the rate of mental illness among abusive men isn’t anything out of the ordinary....”
– Emily Bazelon on why we shouldn’t feel sorry for abusive men
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“destitute on account of all the self-publishing”
– Alice Gregory on Raymond Roussel at the Poetry Foundation
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“Photographs of a young Roussel—riding a live swan, posing as a chambermaid,...”
– Alice Gregory’s GREAT essay on Raymond Roussel at the Poetry Foundation
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“Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence,” Winterson writes, and the thrill...”
– Parul Sehgal on Jeanette Winterson in Bookforum
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“I wonder if there isn’t a third type, too, mysterious and misunderstood: the...”
– Parul Sehgal on Jeanette Winterson in Bookforum
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“ultimately confronting neither problem”
– The Femicide Machine by Sergio González Rodríguez, at Bookforum
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“Turner never troubles himself or the reader with questions about Miller’s...”
– Jeanette Winterson via OMG
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“I sometimes have embarrassment about it in hindsight, but then I do it again.”
– Lena Dunham at The A.V. Club
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I am convinced that this gif captures Meryl Streep’s finest performance on film, ever.
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“If nothing else, the debacle that engulfed the Tent Embassy celebration has once...”
– Chris Graham offers sweet, sweet relief. He found facts in a hopeless place.
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“When Kraus exploded privacy, what she demolished was a house beyond repair”
– Female Trouble. Now on the internet.
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