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Following the Refugees
Foreign Policy tracks refugees on their journey from Syria to Germany and illustrates their trip in a nonfiction comic.
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Iceland is so hot right now
Some videos just make you want to write. Joe Capra's stunning timelapse video of Iceland's "midnight sun" is one of them.
Gaiman TV
We thought we had a better chance of seeing Odin than Neil Gaiman's American Gods on TV, but after the HBO deal fell through, the novel is finally being adapted for the small screen by FremantleMedia. Bonus: Gaiman's Anansi Boys is also being adapted into a BBC miniseries by RED. To brush up on Gaiman's interest in mythology, read our review of The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
The New Gutenberg
In the latest issue of Harvard magazine, Nathan Heller writes about Arion Press, the last remaining “full-service letterpress in the United States.” Apparently Arion, which has “an in-house foundry where lead is melted into ingots,” sells editions of canonical titles (like Ulysses) that retail for thousands of dollars. (h/t our own Kevin Hartnett)
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This Decadent Court
The Toast is nearing the end of its long, hilarious run. Hurry up and check out the new pieces while you still can -- like this helpful guide as to whether or not you are in a Regency-era novel written after the end of the Regency, full of dead giveaways like: "There is lace at your throat and wrists and disdain in your eyes and heart."
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Miss Whatsit
Director Ava Duvernay has found the lead for her film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. Thirteen-year-old Storm Reid will play the lead role of the character Meg Murry, joining a cast that includes Mindy Kaling, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon.
Poet Cops
“The worlds of poetry and law enforcement would seem to share little. But a few poet cops hope to change that perception, one line at a time.”
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A Frothy, Heady BFFship
"It seems that not only do Americans see beer as a person, they see beer as a person other people like better than them."
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