PLANET OF PERIL (51)

How did Tombstone become the mascot of the San Francisco Press Club?

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By Lynn Peril

MEDIA DIET

Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.

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By Annalee Newitz

08th
Feb

Elizabeth Bishop

Ordi­nary objects shim­mer with trans­cend­ent energy in Bishop's poetry.
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By Mark Kingwell

07th
Feb

Best of Brainiac (3)

Why do French think­ers and writers abhor le jog­ging? Ask Sarkozy.
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By Joshua Glenn

07th
Feb

Alfred Adler

Adler want­ed to turn psycho­analysis into pragma for the people.
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By Patrick Cates

06th
Feb

More Troubled Superhumans

A super video remind­ing you of our micro-fiction contest.
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By Matthew Battles

06th
Feb

Mary Leakey

Meet the woman who trans­formed paleo­anthro­po­logical field re­search.
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By Lynn Peril

05th
Feb

Blank Generation: 1944-53

Born between 1944 and 1953: the Blank Generation.
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By Joshua Glenn

05th
Feb

William Burroughs

You are the host of a virus; the virus is life; you are fucked.
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By Lucy Sante

04th
Feb

The Book is a Weapon (15)

When did murder in a bookshop or library become a middlebrow meme? Example: After all, although some bookshops and libraries may be middlebrow, there’s...
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By HILOBROW