The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:30:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 "When I was a PhD candidate at Oxford and Cambridge at the same time…." http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/when-i-was-a-phd-candidate-at-oxford-and-cambridge-at-the-same-time http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/when-i-was-a-phd-candidate-at-oxford-and-cambridge-at-the-same-time#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:30:39 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/when-i-was-a-phd-candidate-at-oxford-and-cambridge-at-the-same-time "Room for Debate" is maybe the greatest dumb-hilarious thing to appear on Gawker ever.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/12/when-i-was-a-phd-candidate-at-oxford-and-cambridge-at-the-same-time/feed 11 Fixing 'Dune' http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/fixing-dune http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/fixing-dune#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:30:04 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/fixing-dune Dune without dialogue: can this campy, disastrous movie be saved by making it more Kubrickian and less studio-messes-with-David-Lynchian?

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]]> Dune without dialogue: can this campy, disastrous movie be saved by making it more Kubrickian and less studio-messes-with-David-Lynchian?

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/fixing-dune/feed 17 A Guide to Fake Internets http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/a-guide-to-fake-internets http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/a-guide-to-fake-internets#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:41:16 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/a-guide-to-fake-internets Best look ever at how computer applications and systems and the Internet are depicted in film. (via)

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/a-guide-to-fake-internets/feed 1 Michele Bachmann Started as a Joke That May Soon Start the Whole World Crying http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/michele-bachmann-started-as-a-joke-that-may-soon-start-the-whole-world-crying http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/michele-bachmann-started-as-a-joke-that-may-soon-start-the-whole-world-crying#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:40:14 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/michele-bachmann-started-as-a-joke-that-may-soon-start-the-whole-world-crying "Yet, increasingly, the pundits who had been laughing at her antics are beginning to say that she could be a candidate for the Republican nomination, especially if Ms. Palin decides not to run."
—Run, Michele Bachmann, run! Two things: 1. "Increasingly" alert. (Where!?) 2. Yay! Yes please, on all counts!

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—Run, Michele Bachmann, run! Two things: 1. "Increasingly" alert. (Where!?) 2. Yay! Yes please, on all counts!

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/03/michele-bachmann-started-as-a-joke-that-may-soon-start-the-whole-world-crying/feed 6 Stories About the Park Slope Food Coop Are Always Fun! http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/stories-about-the-park-slope-food-coop-are-always-fun http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/stories-about-the-park-slope-food-coop-are-always-fun#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:00:03 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/stories-about-the-park-slope-food-coop-are-always-fun What's more delightful than the Park Slope Food Coop? The most magical place on earth. I love to read about these people who live in a land far far away from the real! "Jeremie Delon, 31... rejoined recently after becoming a father. He said the co-op had asked for a birth certificate as proof of the baby’s existence, and was now chasing down the baby’s mother, demanding that she join and put in her time, because all adult members of a household are required to work shifts." OH MY GOD, THAT'S REVERSE HETEROSEXIST.

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]]> What's more delightful than the Park Slope Food Coop? The most magical place on earth. I love to read about these people who live in a land far far away from the real! "Jeremie Delon, 31... rejoined recently after becoming a father. He said the co-op had asked for a birth certificate as proof of the baby’s existence, and was now chasing down the baby’s mother, demanding that she join and put in her time, because all adult members of a household are required to work shifts." OH MY GOD, THAT'S REVERSE HETEROSEXIST.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/stories-about-the-park-slope-food-coop-are-always-fun/feed 19 The Best Content on the Whole Internet http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/the-best-content-on-the-whole-internet http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/the-best-content-on-the-whole-internet#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:10:42 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/the-best-content-on-the-whole-internet Do you want to learn...

How to Sob Uncontrollably?

How to Pour Milk?

How to Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt?

Now you can! It's The Content Farm! Featuring "informative articles about every topic, written by people with a passing knowledge."

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How to Sob Uncontrollably?

How to Pour Milk?

How to Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt?

Now you can! It's The Content Farm! Featuring "informative articles about every topic, written by people with a passing knowledge."

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/the-best-content-on-the-whole-internet/feed 6 'The Dead Do Not Improve': 2012's Novel to Anticipate http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/the-dead-do-not-improve-2012s-novel-to-anticipate http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/the-dead-do-not-improve-2012s-novel-to-anticipate#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:20:27 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2011/02/the-dead-do-not-improve-2012s-novel-to-anticipate Um! Enthusiasts of the work of Jay Kang (this and this) will be interested in this: "Crown's Lindsay Sagnette made a six-figure pre-empt for North American rights to a debut novel by Columbia M.F.A. Jay Kang. Sterling Lord's Jim Rutman sold The Dead Do Not Improve, which the publisher is comparing to works by Junot Díaz and Gary Shteyngart. The novel follows a frustrated young writer with an M.F.A. who becomes the focus of a "violent scheme," per the publisher, after his neighbor is murdered. Crown said the book follows the protagonist as he wanders through 'a suddenly menacing, unknowable San Francisco, fending off militant surfers, overpopulated quinoa cafes, and aggressive advanced creative writing students.'"

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]]> Um! Enthusiasts of the work of Jay Kang (this and this) will be interested in this: "Crown's Lindsay Sagnette made a six-figure pre-empt for North American rights to a debut novel by Columbia M.F.A. Jay Kang. Sterling Lord's Jim Rutman sold The Dead Do Not Improve, which the publisher is comparing to works by Junot Díaz and Gary Shteyngart. The novel follows a frustrated young writer with an M.F.A. who becomes the focus of a "violent scheme," per the publisher, after his neighbor is murdered. Crown said the book follows the protagonist as he wanders through 'a suddenly menacing, unknowable San Francisco, fending off militant surfers, overpopulated quinoa cafes, and aggressive advanced creative writing students.'"

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]]> A website devoted to pictures of rappers when they are looking like they are magicians!

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/rappers-looking-like-magicians/feed 1 Kristin Hersh's 'Rat Girl': "Wildly Funny," Says the 'Times' http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/kristin-hershs-rat-girl-wildly-funny-says-the-times http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/kristin-hershs-rat-girl-wildly-funny-says-the-times#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:09:38 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/kristin-hershs-rat-girl-wildly-funny-says-the-times Kristin Hersh's Rat Girl gets an extremely appreciative review in the Times today. You can enjoy it too!

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]]> Kristin Hersh's Rat Girl gets an extremely appreciative review in the Times today. You can enjoy it too!

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/kristin-hershs-rat-girl-wildly-funny-says-the-times/feed 1 Lydia Davis on Translation http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/lydia-davis-on-translation http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/lydia-davis-on-translation#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:50:19 +0000 Choire Sicha http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/lydia-davis-on-translation Local blogger Lydia Davis is blogging about translation, in anticipation of her new translation of Madame Bovary: "We say to ourselves, complacently looking to Darwin, that [translations] will compete with one another and the fittest will survive. But a significant problem is that the fittest will not necessarily be the best, although it, or they, may be. The ones that survive may be the best edited, and/or the best promoted, and/or the cheapest, and/or the ones accompanied by the most useful apparatus...."

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]]> Local blogger Lydia Davis is blogging about translation, in anticipation of her new translation of Madame Bovary: "We say to ourselves, complacently looking to Darwin, that [translations] will compete with one another and the fittest will survive. But a significant problem is that the fittest will not necessarily be the best, although it, or they, may be. The ones that survive may be the best edited, and/or the best promoted, and/or the cheapest, and/or the ones accompanied by the most useful apparatus...."

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