from The New Yorker
Dorando Pietri of Italy, on the verge of collapse, is helped across the finish line in the marathon event of the Olympic Games in London, 1908. He was subsequently disqualified, and the title was given to John Hayes of the U.S.A. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
from Reddit
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“Harold Brodkey Explains Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call Me Maybe’” by Elissa Bassist in McSweeney’s:
“He begins to walk away, love’s inertia loosening its grip. He may not sleep with her after all. “WHERE YOU THINK YOU’REGOING, BABY?” she howls into the night, gutturally, full to the brim of vulnerability and expired loneliness.
“HEY,” she calls out.
“I JUST MET YOU!” she cries.
She explains, in the language of love—English—how crazy it would be to just—oh, fuck it—she gives him her number.”
TED is introducing a new reading app according to the HuffingtonPost:
“TED books wants to do for reading what the world-famous series of TEDTalks did for web video: provide viral inspiration…TED already produces short e-books on the Kindle, Nook and iBook platforms, but this is a new multimedia venture, launching on July 10th.”
A photo excerpt of some of my favorites from Upworthy.com’s 101 Books To Read This Summer Instead of ‘50 Shades of Grey’.
I hate to shamelessly promote my own Professor’s book, but it looks so interesting I plan on reading it in the next couple of weeks. Here is an excerpt of the review from The Roanoke Times:
“All the Truth” grabs you from the opening scene, even from its opening line about voices in the night (as the German translation of this novel titles it, “Stimmen in der Nacht”) outside the remote country house where Professor Greene lives with her husband and her 5-year-old daughter, Maggie. Her husband is away that night. Emma is confronted by three drunk, lost college seniors, former lackluster students of hers. She knows one to be a kleptomaniac whose daddy contributes millions to the college. The college has an honor system with a single sanction — expulsion. Graduation is only days away. The scene moves swiftly, plausibly, to a burst of violence that Maggie witnesses, but the reader does not.
- Max, the intern
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“The High Line is the distressed skinny jeans of public parks, the gourmet taco truck of urban tourist attractions, and as such, it represents the high-water mark of the hipster aesthetic, which venerates poverty and decay as signifiers of authenticity.”
