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July 30, 2010
Trailer for Packing for Mars by Mary Roach 0
by Edan Lepucki
Part 10: Space Hygiene: “Unfortunately, removing the helmet created a situation where the body odors were forced out of the neck of the pressure suit…” Check out this funny and artful trailer for Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.
July 30, 2010
Äppärät-chic: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story 6
by Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Make no mistake. Super Sad True Love Story boasts two tormented but appealing protagonists locked in a deliciously tortuous love affair. It is indeed super sad, though thankfully untrue and difficult to imagine as prescient. The novel’s excesses are also its weaknesses.
July 29, 2010
The Book Depository Map 0
by Ujala Sehgal
For book voyeurs, the Book Depository has a live, real-time map of people actually buying books from them across the world. (via Guardian’s Book Blog)
July 29, 2010
The Best Magazine Articles 3
by Ujala Sehgal
Before it gets too long and unwieldy, browse this list of the best magazine articles ever written (plus links), including pieces by Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Susan Orlean and Hunter S. Thompson.
July 29, 2010
David Markson’s Personal Library 0
by Ujala Sehgal
The London Review of Books Blog reports that the personal library of late novelist David Markson has been scattered among the stacks at New York’s Strand bookstore, filled with notes, check marks and underlined passages. Some comments found scrawled in his copy of DeLillo’s White Noise: “oh god the pomposity, the bullshit!” and “oh i [...]
July 29, 2010
Many Unusual Deaths 0
by C. Max Magee
Wikipedia Find of the Week: List of unusual deaths. For example, “Draco, Athenian law-maker, was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre on Aegina.”
