The Longest Train I Ever Saw

Letters of Note: I was ready to sink into the earth with shame

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:22:40 -0500

Letters of Note: I was ready to sink into the earth with shame

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:18:13 -0500

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:16:07 -0500

Sedlec Ossuary

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:13:40 -0500

Sedlec Ossuary:

Church of Bones, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Revolutionary War hero becomes honorary US citizen

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:08:06 -0500

Revolutionary War hero becomes honorary US citizen:

Casimir Pulaski!

Leon Spillaert, Sailing Vessel at Sea, 1920

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:24:34 -0500

Leon Spillaert, Sailing Vessel at Sea, 1920

Leon Spilliaaert, The Open Door, 1945

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:23:06 -0500

Leon Spilliaaert, The Open Door, 1945

Ann Woo, Photographer

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:11:59 -0500

Ann Woo, Photographer

Bolaño Inc.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:37:34 -0500

Bolaño Inc.:

Roberto Bolaño is being sold in the U.S. as the next Gabriel García Márquez, a darker, wilder, decidedly un-magical paragon of Latin American literature. But his former friend and fellow novelist, Horacio Castellanos Moya, isn’t buying it.

"A Dream by Jorge Luis Borges In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:14:48 -0500

“

A Dream
by Jorge Luis Borges

In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that; Cells; Prisons; Doors; Writers; Letters; Prisoners In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has neither door nor window. In the only room (with a dirt floor and shaped like a circle) there is a wooden table and a bench. In that circular cell, a man who looks like me is writing in letters I cannot understand a long poem about a man who in another circular cell is writing a poem about a man who in another circular cell … The process never ends and no one will be able to read what the prisoners write.

(Translated, from the Spanish, by Suzanne Jill Levine.)

”

- A Dream : The New Yorker

Fears That Lack of Sick Leave Helps Spread Swine Flu

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:11:00 -0500

Fears That Lack of Sick Leave Helps Spread Swine Flu:

This just in: Poor people don’t get paid when they don’t go to work.

Dissection - Lapham’s Quarterly

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:09:56 -0500

Dissection - Lapham’s Quarterly:

Notes and Thoughts from a Class in Human Dissection

"Prior to the advent of the portable tape recorder, naturalists struggled with descriptions of..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:58:01 -0500

“Prior to the advent of the portable tape recorder, naturalists struggled with descriptions of sounds—a thoroughly unsatisfactory procedure as most investigators realized. One frog is decsribed as having a call “like the loud purr of a cat, with a metallic sound of grinding gears.” Other authors described the same calls as “a low toned tirr-r-r-r,” as “a loud crah-crah-crah,” a resonant yeow,” or “a snore-like cry.” It is manifest that these descriptions convey almost no meaning. Charles M. Bogart, from the liner notes to
Sounds of The American Southwest, Folkways Recordings, 1959.”

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Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:54:57 -0500

Legacy of the Leo Frank lynching

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:53:23 -0500

Legacy of the Leo Frank lynching:

More than 90 years later, his descendants still struggle with unanswered questions.

Recorded Memoirs of English Suffragettes.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:45:05 -0400

Recorded Memoirs of English Suffragettes.:

From the BBC Archives

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:15:50 -0400

Schmidt Sting Pain Index

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:12:36 -0400

Schmidt Sting Pain Index

Just what is it about adding blades that makes a razor better?

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:58:31 -0400

Just what is it about adding blades that makes a razor better?