penguincubator vending machine, 1920s
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penguincubator vending machine, 1920s
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"Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps."
- Ann Patchett responding to lack of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year, in New York Times op-ed “And The Winner Isn’t” (4.18.12)
(Source: The New York Times)
I have to admit, this is what I always pictured when I read Gatsby.
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Great piece on Fresh Air’s social media maven.
npr:
This headline is hilarious: Meet the most popular woman at NPR’s Fresh Air (and its not Terry Gross.)
Congrats Mel!
For those of you out there who are not following nprfreshair, shame on you. You’re missing out! -Savy
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“B*tches in Bookshops” (based on Jay Z and Kanye West’s”N*ggas in Paris”)
This is awesome.
Performed by La Shea Delaney & Annabelle Quezada
Director/Producer/Songwriter - Annabelle Quezada
Director of Photography/Editor/Special FX - Eliav Mintz
Song Recorded and Mixed by - Stephen Galgano
"New York is a city for doers, not dreamers for how can this sleepless city dream. This is a metropolis settled by those who never settle. Where impatience is a virtue. Our shoes are on the streets at every hour. We ride the train and walk the stations. We step out with the hustlers and we stumble the sleepless home to their beds. Proud, ceaseless, chaotic, self-sufficient, New York will be a great place if they ever finish it. And as long as this city moves we will always move within in."
- Cole Haan, Subway Stories (insert in today’s New York Times)
"The Internet has been amazing for book talk. There is more of it, and at a higher quality, than perhaps at any other moment, certainly in my lifetime. Dinosaurs love to lament the lost space in newspaper book reviews; a few years ago, the National Book Critics Circle fought, what seemed to me, a self-serving campaign to save the book review, by which a handful of people really wanted to save their right to sell the same lame 450-word book report to a handful of regional dailies. You didn’t have to bother reading the book to write many of those reviews, and as a one-time daily books editor myself, who once assigned reviews to some of those active in this debate, it was clear that many critics did not. Now we have the Rumpus and the Awl and The Millions and the Morning News and Maud Newton and Bookslut and the Nervous Breakdown and Full-Stop and the Los Angeles Review of Books and HTMLgiant and you get the idea. Professional freelancers didn’t save the book review – the battle was won by the Internet and people who love reading. The culture is richer for it."
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Thanks for the shout!
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Tonight at the Jay-Z concert, sponsored by American Express, the audience was exuberant, particularly during the performance of “Empire State of Mind.” In an apparent nod to the media industry-heavy crowd, the logos of the New Yorker, the New York Post, New York magazine and The New York Times, above, flashed on the screens.
The show was live-streamed on YouTube and by 10 p.m. had nearly 16 million video views. The made-for-Twitter audience was encouraged to tweet throughout the performance using song title hashtags, but the overwhelmed mobile network inside the Austin City Limits theater made that all but impossible to do. Instead, people took pictures and enjoyed some offline time. — Lexi Mainland
