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Friday, July 31, 2015

Memory and Delusion

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This is the first piece in a three-part Page-Turner series featuring Shirley Jackson’s lectures on writing. They are drawn from “Let Me Tell...

What Happened

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Blackout , the recent memoir by Sarah Hepola , chronicles the author’s long struggle with reckless drinking. The title references the total ...

August in the Apple Orchard

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Charles-François Daubigny, Orchard , 1865-69 George Bradley’s poem “August in the Apple Orchard” appeared in our Summer 1980 issue . Brad...

“Twine around each other”

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Recommended Reading: “ Management ” by Erin McGraw . from The Millions http://ift.tt/1IyGDoV

Staff Picks: Local News, Livid Librarians, Loving It All

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A still from James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket When Ingrid Sischy died last week, most obituaries remembered her primarily as the ed...

Title Games

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Penguin is celebrating its eightieth anniversary this year. How well do you know its classic book covers? At The Telegraph , a quiz on the ...

Episode 26: 7 Millions Questions with Karolina Waclawiak

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Welcome to a new episode of The Book Report presented by The Millions ! This week, Janet and Mike have “Seven Millions Questions with Karol...

False Negative

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A striking photo of the Brontё sisters is not, in fact, a photo of the Brontё sisters. The women in the photo look a lot like them, but the...

The Melons of Yesteryear, and Other News

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Giovanni Stanchi, Watermelons, peaches, pears and other fruit in a landscape , 1645–72 Today in obsolete fruits: a seventeenth-century s...

The Unwritten Profile: On The End Of The Tour

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Perhaps the biggest compliment I can give to The End of the Tour , the new film about a five-day interview between the writer David Foster ...

New Drug Lowers Levels of Triglyceride Blood Fats: Study

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Title: New Drug Lowers Levels of Triglyceride Blood Fats: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Revie...

Cooling Bodies of Brain-Dead Donors May Boost Kidney Function After Transplant

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Title: Cooling Bodies of Brain-Dead Donors May Boost Kidney Function After Transplant Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM...

Health Tip: Enjoy Berries

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Title: Health Tip: Enjoy Berries Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM from...

Health Tip: Injuring a Hamstring

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Title: Health Tip: Injuring a Hamstring Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM...

In Rare Cases, Infection May Be at Root of Back Pain

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Title: In Rare Cases, Infection May Be at Root of Back Pain Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7...

Study Finds Drinking May Ease Fibromyalgia Pain, But Doctors Wary

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Title: Study Finds Drinking May Ease Fibromyalgia Pain, But Doctors Wary Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editor...

Texters Walk Cautiously to Avoid Collisions

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Title: Texters Walk Cautiously to Avoid Collisions Category: Health News Created: 7/30/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2015 ...

Scientists Suggest New Way to Predict Lung Cancer Risk

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Title: Scientists Suggest New Way to Predict Lung Cancer Risk Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review:...

U.S. Medical Groups Join to Fight Prescription Painkiller Abuse

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Title: U.S. Medical Groups Join to Fight Prescription Painkiller Abuse Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editoria...

Drug May Ease Passage When Kidney Stone Strikes

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Title: Drug May Ease Passage When Kidney Stone Strikes Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/30/2...

Certain Antibiotics Linked to Hearing Loss, Mouse Study Finds

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Title: Certain Antibiotics Linked to Hearing Loss, Mouse Study Finds Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial ...

How Well Does the Newly Approved Weight-Loss 'Balloon' Work?

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Title: How Well Does the Newly Approved Weight-Loss 'Balloon' Work? Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Edi...

Implanted Defibrillators Restore Healthy Heart Function to Many: Study

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Title: Implanted Defibrillators Restore Healthy Heart Function to Many: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last E...

Autism Care Costs Could Hit $500 Billion by 2025: Study

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Title: Autism Care Costs Could Hit $500 Billion by 2025: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review...

Social Life May Be Key to Suicide Prevention for Women

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Title: Social Life May Be Key to Suicide Prevention for Women Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review:...

Five Photographs by Ellen Auerbach

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From “ Ellen Auerbach: Classic Works and Collaborations ,” an exhibition at Robert Mann Gallery through August 14. Auerbach, who died in 200...

Remembering James Salter, and His Commas

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A memorial for James Salter was held late Tuesday afternoon on the Upper East Side, at a Unitarian church with an abstract cross in the stai...

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Naptime with Mrs. Melville

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A portrait of Maria Gansevoort Melville by Ezra Ames, ca. 1815 Yesterday we posted Rick Moody’s introduction to Genoa: A Telling of Wonde...

Browne’s Guide to Science Writing

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Want to write about science? Let Sir Thomas Browne , “17th-century know-it-all,” show you how . from The Millions http://ift.tt/1gqX3Fw ...

Ur-Road Movie

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“This is the first one, the big one, the ur-road movie: the Odyssey .” Charlotte Higgins writes about how Homer’s epic goes far beyond geo...

Thinking Like a Mountain

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How Aldo Leopold came to conservationism. Aldo Leopold on a trip to the Rio Gavilan, ca. 1936. Photo: U.S. Forest Service On the first d...

Long-form Godfather

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Ernest Hemingway , “the godfather of long-form” nonfiction? Richard Brody argues so in the New Yorker , citing Hemingway’s autobiographica...

Selection of Dr. William T. Riley as the Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH

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Announcing the selection of William T. Riley, Ph.D., as the next Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). ...

Probably Not the Brontës, and Other News

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A collector named Seamus Molloy thinks this photo is of the Brontë sisters. Today in pictures of the Brontë sisters that are probably ac...

Bold but Messy: On Eileen Myles and the Fugitive Form

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I have an almost full collection of Hanuman Books, the thumb-size editions handmade by the press founded in 1986 by Raymond Foye and Franc...

Deaths, Hospital Stays and Costs All Down Among U.S. Seniors

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Title: Deaths, Hospital Stays and Costs All Down Among U.S. Seniors Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial R...

Millions of Americans Reaping Benefits of Affordable Care Act: Study

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Title: Millions of Americans Reaping Benefits of Affordable Care Act: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Edi...

Weight at First Pregnancy Linked to Complications Next Time

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Title: Weight at First Pregnancy Linked to Complications Next Time Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Re...

For Women, No Link Between Kidney Stones, Osteoporosis

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Title: For Women, No Link Between Kidney Stones, Osteoporosis Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review:...

Doctors Perform First Double Hand Transplant in a Child

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Title: Doctors Perform First Double Hand Transplant in a Child Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review...

Jealousy Can Drive Some to Problem Drinking, Study Suggests

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Title: Jealousy Can Drive Some to Problem Drinking, Study Suggests Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Re...

Dialysis Patients May Be Unprepared for Natural Disasters

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Title: Dialysis Patients May Be Unprepared for Natural Disasters Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Revi...

Health Tip: After You Finish a Marathon

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Title: Health Tip: After You Finish a Marathon Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/29/2015 12:0...

Health Tip: Teach Kids to Protect Themselves

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Title: Health Tip: Teach Kids to Protect Themselves Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/29/2015...

FDA Approves 'Belly Balloon' Device for Weight Loss

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Title: FDA Approves 'Belly Balloon' Device for Weight Loss Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Re...

Taking St. John's Wort for Depression Carries Risks: Study

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Title: Taking St. John's Wort for Depression Carries Risks: Study Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial...

Bionic Eye Helps Restore Some Vision in 80-Year-Old

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Title: Bionic Eye Helps Restore Some Vision in 80-Year-Old Category: Health News Created: 7/29/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/...

The Square Root of Two

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Joaquin Agrasot y Juan, Las Dos Amigas , 1866 It’s late, and you’re still awake. Allow us to help with Sleep Aid , a series devoted to cu...

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Oyster Pirates
This week in book-related infographics: “Unusual Jobs of Famous Writers,” from Chuck Palahniuk (diesel mechanic) to Jack London (oyster pirate). fro...

The Social Function of the Novel
Recommended reading: Tim Parks asks “what is the social function of the novel?“ from The Millions http://ift.tt/1MhzJHu

That Moment When
“I can still remember with complete clarity the way I felt when whatever it was came fluttering down into my hands that day 30 years ago on the g...

An X-Ray of My Holiday Suitcase
See the rest of the story at newyorker.com Related: An Awkward Adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet” The Cartoon Lounge: Bob and Colin’s “Beach ...