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Conversations with children can be like a time machine; in their words and attitudes, we often see ourselves backwards through the tunnel of time. We get to see our optimism and hope, ignorance and immaturity all in one under-sized package. Though we never get that oft wished-for chance impart crucial wisdom to our young selves, [...]
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From Slate: A terrific interview with This American Life‘s Ira Glass on storytelling, creativity, and being wrong. But there’s a really fascinating instance of what you’re talking about in Chuck Klosterman’s new book [Eating the Dinosaur]. I feel like this is a really weird example to bring up, but he interviews me and Errol Morris about [...]
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“n. the lucky fascination felt when a typo immeasurably improves a sentence you wrote, singed by the underlying recognition that the book of your life is credited to you but is not in your handwriting, which nevertheless appears in trace passages of many other lives.” Emphasis added. From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
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Guest blog by Curator contributor Rob Hays. From time to time, out of the blue, you tune in to a favorite tv show, only to be surprised by a curveball: the Very Special Episode. What was once a light-hearted sitcom has elected to take on an important issue like addiction or abuse, and rather than [...]
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From the New York Times: A Rebuilding Phase for Independent Cinema. For more than a decade, the indie film movement centered in New York flourished, at times almost eclipsing the output of the mainstream Hollywood studios in terms of impact and accolades. But the financial collapse and the credit crisis had a deep impact on [...]
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An interesting infographic – which is emitting the most CO2 per day, planes or volcanoes? Infographic junkies who love public radio’s This American Life should also check out This American Graphic.
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From the Chronicle of Higher Education: Bad Writing and Bad Thinking. They were a lively group of students, and we chatted for an hour, discussing topics we were all interested in. They asked smart questions. When we were wrapping up, I asked them a question: “What is your relationship to reading and writing?” At that [...]
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From The Guardian: How do you measure theatre success? A group of the UK theatre world’s leading industry bodies – The Society of London Theatre, Theatrical Management Association and Independent Theatre Council – have recently come up with what they believe is a completely new way of measuring the effectiveness (or otherwise) of a theatre [...]
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From The Millions: Every Day I Open a Book. Whatever the desire, I read so much that eventually my parents forced me to go outside and play, and they talked to each other—and I overheard—of taking me to a child specialist to see if there was anything wrong with me. And still I devoured books, [...]
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education: A Letter from a Graduate Student in the Humanities. Benton goes on to criticize both professors who offer such encouragement to their would-be graduate students, and graduate students themselves for their “angry and incoherent” responses to his critique. While I understand that he and his ilk may be trying [...]
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