February 2012
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The 10 Most Poplular Articles from Tetw
Over the last year The Electric Typewriter has posted links to around 400 outstanding articles and essays. These are the 10 Tumblr’s users showed the most love by liking and reblogging:
How Not to Talk to Your Kids by Po Bronson - The dangers of praise — how telling kids they are great can mess them up.
On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion - The...
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Poetry FAQ - Wendy MacLeod for McSweeney's →
If you arrange the words On a page Like this So that everything hugs the left margin Is that a poem?
Yes, that is an undergraduate poem.
Oh BOY do I miss Wendy.
(Previously: she and my pal Will Arbery clean out the Kenyon College Drama Department play library and discover 52 Terrible Titles of Plays That Were Actually Produced and Published)
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Politico Poll: Most Americans Actually Back the... →
This marks the first time that two normally warring camps — women who like having sex without worrying about getting pregnant and crotchety misanthropes who hate it when people bring babies to restaurants or on airplanes — have joined forces to support a political cause. Also involved in this historic alliance are men who enjoy having sexual relations with the women on the birth control,...
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The Only Thing Broken Today Is My Bank Account
Being poor on Valentine’s Day means I will just get to wait until, like, Thursday when I get paid to buy overpriced chocolates and feel like I actually have an excuse for lying in bed watching Mad Men all night, as opposed to all the other nights when I’m doing just that and every so often I feel a twinge of “I have a liberal arts degree cum laude, I should be doing something...
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Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you’re being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn’t want to pay their taxes. Have a good summer!
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The Sanguine Sex →
tetw:
by Caitlin Flanagan
Women will always have emotional needs that they can fill through sex, and men will always use those needs to their advantage. But men will never bear the brunt of sexuality.
There’s something incredibly tragic about the way we’re built to relate to one another as men and women when sex gets involved.
I think, as this piece seems to suggest, that...
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“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I...”
– Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)
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“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a...”
– This is pretty real, pretty often.
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“Dear Diary:
Noticed:
Zabar’s on the Upper West Side.
Weekday afternoon,...”
– An Ode to the G Train and Other Reader Tales (nytimes)
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How did I manage to completely miss the passing of my favorite poet? Oh yes, because the past few days have been a shitstorm of everything.
The Szymborska Poem Above My Desk - Dana Stevens for Slate
For the record, if you are shopping by translation, the best are hands-down those by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak. I too have a Wislawa Szymborska poem they translated that I ripped from...
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Really? Do you really want those pants back?...
This emphasis on performing the role of “someone who’s into music” as opposed to actually listening to music (or watching a music video) is at the core of not only Pants and MTV’s 21st-century programming strategy, but of “music appreciation culture” (blogs, social media, party photographers’ galleries from secret shows like the aforementioned Wavves...
“I feel that so much of the kind of murderous rhetoric of American politics and...”
– In November, Terry interview The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore about the politicization of abortion and birth control, and about the history and future of Planned Parenthood. (via nprfreshair)
