January 2012
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you, me, & the new sincerity.
I began this essay trying to explain why all my writing on The Arkadelphian seems to keep to the same itinerary: something indirect, such as an ostensible music or book critique, twisting into reflexive (and often very personal) directions. The more I thought about it, the more the idea grew. About two months later, I have something rather different entirely.
First, some Greek for you. The...
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Megan Amram: Paula Deen’s Health Food Cookbook →
meganamram:
Recently, Paula Deen has admitted that she’s had Type II Diabetes for years. Accordingly, she’s putting out a cookbook of healthy food. Here are some excerpts!
FRUIT SALAD
INGREDIENTS:
1 lb. bag of Skittles
3 cups ranch dressing
DIRECTIONS:
Mix well. Serve room temperature.
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Writers' Routines: LATE BLOOMERS: Raymond Chandler →
writersroutines:
At 20, Chandler became a reporter. He was an unsuccessful journalist, published reviews and continued writing romantic poetry. Accounting for that time he said, “Of course in those days as now there were clever young men who made a decent living as freelancers for the numerous literary weeklies, but I was distinctly not a clever young man. Nor was I at all a happy young man.”...
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Writers' Routines: David Lynch →
writersroutines:
For seven years in the 1980s he ate lunch at Bob’s Big Boy every day, which consisted of cup after cup of coffee and a single chocolate milkshake while scribbling notes on Bob’s napkins. He arrived at Bob’s at precisely 2:30 p.m. each day. The reason: “If you go earlier, at lunchtime, they’re making a lot of chocolate milkshakes. The mixture has to cool in a machine, but if it...
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“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens” (via fwriction)
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Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?
vanityfair:
Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper should print lies or the truth, we here at V.F. looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
One example: the word “maintenance” seems like it should only have one “a” in it. It should be “maintenence,” right? But it’s not....
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The trials and tribulations of attempting to... →
shortformblog:
Making a newspaper anywhere these days is not easy; making a daily newspaper in South Sudan can seem nearly impossible. The country is twice the size of Arizona and 80 percent of its roughly 10 million people are illiterate. Power losses, a scarcity of paved roads, scattershot Internet access and increasing tribal violence make it that much harder.
And yet since its founding in...
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25 One-Word Answers to Very Important Questions
mentalflossr:
To coincide with our new cover story — The Most Important Questions of 2012 — here are some very short answers to very big questions.
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