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I started to collect these in the tense weeks waiting to hear back from my first batch of interviews. You can clean just about anything with...

The Kitchn has been posting recipes for recent graduates all week. Here are the recipes that have gotten me through since college. There...

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo . Via Looking Up.

Via EW .

Biodiversity by Christoph Niemann for the NYT blog.

Brian Dettmer blows my mind! He does great stuff with cassette tapes , too (thanks, Gene!).

Now you can finally enjoy reading e-books without giving up the smell you love so much. With Smell of Books™ you can have the best of both w...

In the mood for a little music In B Flat ?

Colm Toibin has the best interviews of anyone I've read of late. The comment about getting no pleasure from writing was incredible, and...

" The Office Girl ," a short story by Joe Meno.

The Language Log article mentions the word "kumquat," which makes me think of this little girl's face .

The Language Log on word attraction .

Image via MNArtists . In celebration, may I present Postcards From Yo Momma .

By Embloggery . I've been working for years to get the job offer I got yesterday.

Have I mentioned I finally fulfilled my dream of starting a blog of alphabets ? Just alphabets. Sometimes blogs are better when they're ...

My boss tipped me off to this series by Tabitha Vevers, titled " Flying Dreams ." She painted all sorts of people's dreams abo...

I get it, Amazon. You hired Toni Morrison and Steven King to advertise for you. But a bigger screen doesn't add the color photos or inte...

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo . Brilliant little video with a high-tech little black notebook. (via BookFutures )

James Wood's finger drumming, analyzed by Alex Rose for Opium Magazine . I had the pleasure of seeing Wood lecture at Columbia in a ver...