The Millions » Curiosities http://www.themillions.com Fri, 25 May 2012 20:10:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 George Carlin, tireless student of language http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/george-carlin-tireless-student-of-language.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/george-carlin-tireless-student-of-language.html#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 20:10:08 +0000 Emily M. Keeler http://www.themillions.com/?p=41326 The Atlantic on George Carlin’s seven dirty words as they turn 40 years old.  You can watch a 1978 performance on YouTube, if you’ve never heard the routine. Maybe put the headphones on, though, as the language is, as you might expect, deliciously filthy, so yeah, NSFW.

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]]> http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/george-carlin-tireless-student-of-language.html/feed 0 Tweeting with Jennifer Egan http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/tweeting-with-jennifer-egan.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/tweeting-with-jennifer-egan.html#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 18:15:28 +0000 Emily M. Keeler http://www.themillions.com/?p=41322
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    • ]]>     Jennifer Egan has a new story, “Black Box,” which is being published in ten installments over the New Yorker Fiction Twitter feed. Beginning last night at 8pm EST, and the story continues tonight at the same time.

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    ]]>     http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/tweeting-with-jennifer-egan.html/feed 0     #LitBeat: The Common Launch http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/litbeat-the-common-launch.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/litbeat-the-common-launch.html#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 16:15:19 +0000 Emily M. Keeler http://www.themillions.com/?p=41319
  • Wild night On Monday night Cheryl Strayed, also loved  as The Rumpus‘s...
  • The Common’s first year in print! The Common will be celebrating its first year of publication...
  • Books Have Ruined Our Lives, Now We Want to Ruin Yours Our intrepid AWP #LitBeat correspondent attended an offsite event called...
    • ]]>     In the latest installment of #LitBeat our intrepid reporter Tiffany Gibert finds herself celebrating The Common and transfixed by The Dog House Band.

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    ]]>     http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/litbeat-the-common-launch.html/feed 0     Recommended Reading is Here! http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/recommended-reading-is-here.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/recommended-reading-is-here.html#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 14:00:31 +0000 Emily M. Keeler http://www.themillions.com/?p=41316 Starting strong out of the gate with a new short story from Ben Marcus, Electric Lit‘s latest project, Recommended Reading is here! There’s also a single sentence animation and a letter from the editor.  And best of all, it’s published directly to Tumblr, though you can also read the story on your Kindle or ePub reader.

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    ]]>     http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/recommended-reading-is-here.html/feed 0     Drawing Connections http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/drawing-connections.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/drawing-connections.html#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 20:00:45 +0000 Matthew Schantz http://www.themillions.com/?p=41293
  • Drawing Autism A recent Curiosity noted autistic British artist Stephen Wiltshire drawing...
  • Missed Connections: A Review of Philip Hensher’s The Northern Clemency Halfway through Howards End, E.M. Forster describes a certain elm...
  • How Do You Illustrate Footnotes? Seven Stories Press is publishing three volumes of a Graphic...
    • ]]>     Stephen J. Gertz shows off some of Bukowski’s artwork; Sketches of F. Scott drawn by Zelda Fitzgerald and a portrait of their relationship by Anne Margaret Daniel; An interview with three of the more than 130 artists involved with The Graphic Canon, a series of illustrated literary classics.

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    ]]>     http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/drawing-connections.html/feed 0     Needs More Filigree http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/needs-more-filigree.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/needs-more-filigree.html#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:28 +0000 Matthew Schantz http://www.themillions.com/?p=41281 Kate Heart has put together an array of charts breaking down the covers of 2011′s Young Adult fiction. Spoiler: the average book featured filigree and a white girl whose head is “mostly/ completely missing.”

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    ]]>     http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/needs-more-filigree.html/feed 0     Unpredictable Prestige http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/unpredictable-prestige.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/unpredictable-prestige.html#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 17:00:47 +0000 Matthew Schantz http://www.themillions.com/?p=41273
  • “The ringing, defiant poetry of Adrienne Rich.” The New Yorker has made six poems that Adrienne Rich...
    • ]]>     In 1929 readers ventured that John Galsworthy was the author most likely to be read in 100 years. Why were they so wrong?

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    ]]>     http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/crowd-source-everything.html/feed 1     Orange to withdraw sponsorship of woman’s fiction prize http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/orange-to-withdraw-sponsorship-of-womans-fiction-prize.html http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/orange-to-withdraw-sponsorship-of-womans-fiction-prize.html#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 14:00:46 +0000 Matthew Schantz http://www.themillions.com/?p=41268 Kate Mosse announced that Orange will no longer be sponsoring the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, given annually to the best work of English-language fiction written by a woman.

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    • ]]>     The trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s forthcoming film The Master was released this week. The film will be about a mercurial religion called “The Cause,” and the whole thing appears to be based on L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology.

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