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Teju Cole on travelling from Amman to Ramallah for the Palestine Festival of Literature. “Monday How does one write about this place? Every sentence is open to dispute. Every place name objected to by someone. Every barely stated fact seems familiar already, at once tiresome and necessary. Whatever is written is examined not only forContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND THREE”

Art by OTHER, go through his full photostream here.

From It’s Nice That: Jesse Jacobs gives me a headache but I like it.

From This is Indexed.

From Four Deuces by Stuart Dybek in A Public Space. “One Saturday I hear the opera station mixed up with the creepy sound of pigeons. Usually, Frank played it quiet cause he knew opera annoyed me. But it’s blaring. I walk to the porch and he’s standing by the windows looking out, waving his arms likeContinue reading “NINETY NINE”

Malika Favre is a French illustrator who does some incredibly stylish work that’s ultra-modern but also a little bit Mad Men. 

Truly, ominous. “It is not law firms that are being “branded” here, despite what students think, but the law students themselves, creating an image of class and sophistication that legitimates their status while at the same time it persuades them that this is what “real law”—big city law, big money law—just is. Coffee House provides an opportunity forContinue reading “NINETY SEVEN”

Vin Ganapathy’s illustrations are quirky and beautiful:  

Because I am sick of giving men fake phone numbers, or telling them I have a boyfriend, because I know how easily and violently “I’m not interested” can be ignored. Because during the year I spent working at the student union, there was a period where I was receiving regular rape and death threats because of my organization’sContinue reading “NINETY FOUR”

Elliot Rodger and Men Who Hate Men on the Belle Jar: “We don’t know if Elliot Rodger was mentally ill. We don’t know if he was a “madman.” We do know that he was desperately lonely and unhappy, and that the Men’s Rights Movement convinced him that his loneliness and unhappiness was intentionally caused by women.Continue reading “NINETY TWO”

David Fullarton, from “Things That Happened And Things that We Made Up.”

I love these sketches from Bladerunner :

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always inContinue reading “EIGHTY NINE”