October 2011
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The Guardian is on tumblr →
tetw:
Just noticed that the Guardian is on tumblr. Click through for quality left-leaning journalism (for those of you reading in the states, click through for dangerous communist propaganda).
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Why Does God Love Beards?: A discussion of facial... →
(via Slate)
An Amish splinter group has gone on a crime spree, forcibly cutting the beards off of their rivals. Many religions, including Sikhism, Islam, and sects of Judaism, encourage or require their men to keep beards. Jesus Christ is often depicted with a beard. Why does God like facial hair so much?
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“It’s sort of a commonplace that Hemingway hated his mother, and it’s true that...”
– Penn State English professor Sandra Spanier is working on a project to print 6,000 unpublished letters between Ernest Hemingway and various correspondents. In total, the publication could range 16 volumes and dramatically change the way historians, biographers, and readers understand...
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Writing is a natural process–we're all geared up... →
(via The Guardian)
The great thing about this cat – the writing one – is that there are a thousand different ways to skin it. In fact, you don’t have to skin it at all – and it doesn’t even need to be a cat! What I mean, in the first instance, is feel free to dispute or ignore everything in this introduction or in the articles that follow. As Tobias Wolff puts it in his masterly...
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