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Nudes at the Arcade

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These bits of buried poetry, the divergent and deeply personal connections I found myself making, ran like a subterranean river beneath the familiar cultural production of the Status Update.

Séance: Johannes Gutenberg

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We fire up our Ouija board app to summon the titan of typography, Johannes Gutenberg.

The Waiting Game

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The hour and a half requirement for alternate side of the street parking is a Kafkaesque joke played by the Department of Transportation and the NYPD.

How Gene Simmons Helped Kill Rock

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Simmons sees the crisis of cultural production as a problem caused by middle class people not sufficiently understanding how capitalism is supposed to work.

The Underground Hedonist

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The unique pleasure of reading erotica in public, and especially on the subway, is its low-grade naughtiness.

#eBookDay: 6 Works that Are Better as eBooks

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Happy Read an eBook Day! Here are six works that are just plain better as eBooks.

The Future Library Project

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We are fated not to know our ever-unstable future; time continues ever onward; stories have longer lifespans than we do.

Things I Read in the Last Month (or So): am i being revolutionary yet

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I have a very anxiety-ridden, racing mind and so I covet the occasional book that has a narcotic effect.

One Previous Owner: Inside The World of Murderabilia

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Items that once belonged to the household names of serial killing are to murderabilia enthusiasts what Inverted Jenny postage stamps are to stamp collectors.

The AEG Turbinenfabrik

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The AEG Turbinenfabrik seems alien to our world because it is very clearly a product of a world that was, for all its fault, not yet total crap.