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Dog blog. Musings. Andrew Bird. Anne Carson. Medieval. Classics etc. etc.

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The Art of Fiction No. 78, with James Baldwin, whose book of essays, The Fire Next Time, was published on this day in 1963.

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May all your cookout dreams come true…

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Please look at my brilliant friend's work!!!

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“Soppy” - Illustrtation by Philippa Rice

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I don’t think the reader should be indulged as a consumer, because he isn’t one.

Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228 (via theparisreview)

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#originalsquad 

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I was up for a role and I went in character, focused and whatnot. And they said, “That’s the director’s favorite pick, they absolutely love her, but can she come back in with a tight black dress, with her face all done real nice?” And I said, “That’s not the character! No, that doesn’t make any sense! Why would I do that?” And they said, “Because they need to know if you’re pretty enough to put you on the cover of a magazine.” And I told them this: they don’t want me. They don’t want me then, because this is how you put someone on the cover of a magazine - you get a fucking backdrop, you get a photographer, you take a picture, and you print that shit out. That’s how you put someone on the cover of a magazine. The camera will not break, unless I fucking break it with my hand.

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YES

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Hey gang! Felix tweeted a not-so subtle hint that there would be a new Told Slant track in anticipation of their upcoming album “Going By” and here it is!

Check out Tsunami, a favorite live, now in its album form! Not only that there’s a new tour-made-Felix-made video to accompany it! There are two sweet writeups, one in the Fader and one at Stereogum, so check those out at well!

“Going By” appears in the physical world on the 17th of June and you will NOT be disappointed. Head over to Double Double Whammy and check out the 4 pre-order options! The GOLD album has already SOLD OUT! 

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2h7S5TbqCk)

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Was it a date? We assembled a panel of experts to assess the situation. 

Watch more “Shorts & Murmurs” videos. 

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Horrible but very accurate

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 Witches Flying To #Sabbath – Bernard Zuber

Article:  Halfway to Halloween: Walpurgisnacht is ‘Witches’ Night’

As you stand under the darkened sky on the eve of May, you may hear the rushing of bird or bat wing overhead, or witness the momentary blotting out of a constellation or two as they take flight. However, they are neither bird nor bat – for tonight is Walpurgisnacht, and the sky is full of witches….

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yeeees

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Froglike Spirits.

Beatus of Liéban, Spain 13th C. (via)

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I’m the frogs

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By Ijeoma Umebinyuo

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This Poet Helped Beyoncé Craft the Narrative of “Lemonade”

Our 2015 look at Warsan Shire, London’s first Young Poet Laureate: 

Shire’s work, she has said, is a project of “documentation, genealogy, preserving the names of the women came before me. To connect, honor, to confront.” But it’s her documenting of the present, always coming back to the subject of love and its many tender and punishing forms, that is enthralling. 

Read more on newyorker.com.

Photograph by Amaal Said

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All downhill to the DQ from here!