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    Jun 25

    In 1958, John Leo Brady got his lover pregnant and decided to stick up a bank to fund a new life. It ended with a murder, a Supreme Court case, and the formation of the Brady rule: Co-published with

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    "It took the emergence of a new urban life to spark the creation of the kind of eating and drinking establishment that would enshrine the straw in American culture: the soda fountain."

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    "It can feel so scary to make art, that I think it’s easy to get stuck in what you think you’re most capable of. Your best work actually comes from scaring yourself, and being in discomfort to some degree."

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  4. 2 hours ago

    "Moving out to a place of one’s own for peace, quiet, and privacy is an occasion for congratulations, while living alone as a result of being abandoned or left behind is a much more pitiable affair."

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  5. 2 hours ago

    "My mother is confined in her cave of steel, trapped within the boundaries of her forgetfulness. I am trapped in my own universe of half dreams and meditations."

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  6. 4 hours ago

    "There were just two problems: the flavor, and the farting."

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  7. 6 hours ago

    "Only a novel can tell you how caste, communalisation, sexism, love, music, poetry, the rise of the right all combine in a society. And the depths in which they combine." Arundhati Roy

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  8. 8 hours ago

    "As I think about my dad and Pippi, it illuminates another common feature of the films, books, and TV that he likes: girls who kick butt."

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  9. 10 hours ago

    "Maybe among the truths of growing up piling around me, I grasped that happiness would never again be as uncomplicated as my mother taking me to the supermarket."

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    17 hours ago

    A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books |

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    12 hours ago

    I wrote down a few thoughts on XXX's death and fandom, inspired by a Pitchfork piece by Stephen Kearse, which got me to thinking about Pearl Cleage's "Mad at Miles." via

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  12. 12 hours ago

    "I wanted to be able to do this — to live in a quiet, green time warp, to have a trainer twice a week (or even to know what I was doing next week), to look up and around as opposed to just straight and down."

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  13. 12 hours ago

    "In a world seduced by screens, the future of paper might seem uncertain. But many in the industry remain optimistic."

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  14. 13 hours ago

    "There’s been a tendency over the last century or two to imagine the solo-living man as someone who has chosen peaceful privacy and the solo-living woman as a sort of flawed societal leftover."

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  15. 14 hours ago

    Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims:

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  16. 16 hours ago

    "How easy it is to slip into reverie, to slip across the boundary from one reality to the other, one fancy to the next, especially in this city."

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  17. 16 hours ago

    "When you write about returning home, and home is a place that echoes with national wounds, you run the risk of making it seem as though home is frozen except when you, the expatriate, return."

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  18. 17 hours ago

    "When workers have more power, they tend use it to shift their jobs away from generating maximal profits for their bosses and toward helping their patients, customers, students, or whoever they serve."

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  19. 17 hours ago

    At , reports on kratom, a plant-based substance that has helped some opioid abusers to overcome addiction:

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    17 hours ago

    Over , we have an excerpt from 's powerful, beautiful new memoir, The Inward Empire, about how getting diagnosed w/ MS as a new father left him trying to understand the interiors of his young daughter’s mind, and his own.

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  21. 17 hours ago

    "The Tasmanian tiger is more renowned for the tragedy of its death than for its life, about which little is known. Enthusiasts hope it will be a Lazarus species—an animal considered lost but then found."

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