May 7, 2012
believermag: FULL TEXTThe Believer Book Award and The Believer Poetry Award !The Reader SurveyBeliever readers vote for their favorites FULL TEXTColossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity by B. Alexandra SzerlipThe tiny, meticulous re-creations of golf courses, racetracks, and the fields of war that were the precursors of a sweeping view of the future American Isolatoby Ginger StrandHow the creation of the United States Highway System led to the unremarked rise of a very American breed of serial killer Americans Talk About Their Dogs by Ryan & Satchel
“I wouldn’t have said this before, but now I have a tremendous fear of having anything I have to protect.” Drying in the Wilderness by Tana Wojczuk
The false promises of Manifest Destiny and the individualism of the American West created a mirage in the middle of the desert On Dodgem Jockeys by Tom McCarthyHast thou considered the hired hands on the bumper-car circuit? Kateřina Šedá interviewed by Darren O’Donnell 
The artist who brought a village from the Czech Republic to London describes what it takes to curate entire lives FULL TEXTJonathan Lethem microinterviewed by Peter Andrey Smith Ricky Jay interviewed by Greg Buium
How far can you trust a man who’s a sleight-of-hand artist, card-sharp, actor, and storyteller? William Connolly interviewed by Jill StaufferThe political theorist discusses the dangers of pretending that the personal and the political can be separated. Rick Moody on Ryan Boudinot FULL TEXTRonnie Scott on the BBC’s South Pacific John Reed on Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer What the Swedes Read by Daniel Handler Musin’s and Thinkin’s by Jack Pendarvis Schema: The Many Brows of Wallace Shawn by Megan Roberts FULL TEXTWhite Migraine: A new poem by Michael Dickman Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus with a companion Spotify playlist by Karolina Waclawiak “Comics” edited by Alvin Buenaventura Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby and more!

believermag:

FULL TEXT
The Believer Book Award and The Believer Poetry Award !

The Reader Survey
Believer readers vote for their favorites

FULL TEXT
Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity by B. Alexandra Szerlip
The tiny, meticulous re-creations of golf courses, racetracks, and the fields of war that were the precursors of a sweeping view of the future

American Isolatoby Ginger Strand
How the creation of the United States Highway System led to the unremarked rise of a very American breed of serial killer

Americans Talk About Their Dogs by Ryan & Satchel

“I wouldn’t have said this before, but now I have a tremendous fear of having anything I have to protect.”

Drying in the Wilderness by Tana Wojczuk

The false promises of Manifest Destiny and the individualism of the American West created a mirage in the middle of the desert

On Dodgem Jockeys by Tom McCarthy
Hast thou considered the hired hands on the bumper-car circuit?

Kateřina Šedá interviewed by Darren O’Donnell

The artist who brought a village from the Czech Republic to London describes what it takes to curate entire lives

FULL TEXT
Jonathan Lethem microinterviewed by Peter Andrey Smith

Ricky Jay interviewed by Greg Buium

How far can you trust a man who’s a sleight-of-hand artist, card-sharp, actor, and storyteller?

William Connolly interviewed by Jill Stauffer
The political theorist discusses the dangers of pretending that the personal and the political can be separated.

Rick Moody on Ryan Boudinot

FULL TEXT
Ronnie Scott on the BBC’s South Pacific

John Reed on Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer

What the Swedes Read by Daniel Handler

Musin’s and Thinkin’s by Jack Pendarvis

Schema: The Many Brows of Wallace Shawn by Megan Roberts

FULL TEXT
White Migraine: A new poem by Michael Dickman

Real Life Rock Top Ten by Greil Marcus with a companion Spotify playlist by Karolina Waclawiak

“Comics” edited by Alvin Buenaventura

Stuff I’ve Been Reading by Nick Hornby

and more!

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April 24, 2012
guernicamag: The Age of Discovery created a boom in information-gathering, Internet-like in its speed, each new map a wishful startup out to change the world. Ah, to be at the center of the world! How Gerard Mercator changed history by creating the first useful map. Michelle Legro of the ever-wonderful Lapham’s Quarterly writes.

guernicamag:

The Age of Discovery created a boom in information-gathering, Internet-like in its speed, each new map a wishful startup out to change the world.

Ah, to be at the center of the world! How Gerard Mercator changed history by creating the first useful map. Michelle Legro of the ever-wonderful Lapham’s Quarterly writes.

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February 4, 2012

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February 4, 2012

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February 4, 2012

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February 4, 2012

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February 4, 2012

Treehouses!

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February 4, 2012

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February 4, 2012

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February 4, 2012

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February 4, 2012

Lamp hack, a curtained bed done two ways, a light-filled reading nook.

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January 26, 2012
Elie Saab, Spring 2012

Elie Saab, Spring 2012

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January 23, 2012
"I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not already done in some other place or time, or for which the technology did not already exist. I did not wish to be accused of dark, twisted inventions, or of misrepresenting the human potential for deplorable behaviour."

— Margaret Atwood revisits The Handmaid’s Tale. (via millionsmillions)

(via millionsmillions)

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January 23, 2012

(Source: emschu, via mexicanfireworks)

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January 23, 2012
Awesome cover of one of my favorite books. book-aesthete: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick. New York, 1968. First edition, ex-library copy, with stamp and ink numbering to title, and base of p. 210, library label to endpaper, hinges weak, original cloth, cocked, frayed and marked at head and base, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends bumped, creased, 8vo. B-A Note: I really like this jacket artwork for some reason. ____________________________ “A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard. Surprised - it always surprised him to find himself awake without prior notice - he rose from the bed, stood up in his multicolored pajamas, and stretched.” - Chapter 1 “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.” - Mercer

Awesome cover of one of my favorite books.

book-aesthete:

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick. New York, 1968.

First edition, ex-library copy, with stamp and ink numbering to title, and base of p. 210, library label to endpaper, hinges weak, original cloth, cocked, frayed and marked at head and base, dust-jacket, spine faded, spine ends bumped, creased, 8vo.

B-A Note: I really like this jacket artwork for some reason.

____________________________
“A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard. Surprised - it always surprised him to find himself awake without prior notice - he rose from the bed, stood up in his multicolored pajamas, and stretched.” - Chapter 1

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.” - Mercer

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