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11/20/2009 4:25:30 PM
Wordnik provides a one-stop spot for word lovers surfing for definitions….
11/12/2009 5:29:31 PM
Publishers release a lot of cookbooks before the holidays, and wouldn’t you know: We’ve been seeing a lot of fine food volumes pass through the Utne Reader library lately....
11/10/2009 4:56:20 PM
When playing with Legos, it’s important to keep the “four-er flat hinge-y bits” separate from the “clippy bits.”...
10/26/2009 9:53:00 AM
In the new issue of Ruminate, “40 Days” is a captivating, expertly crafted story about intimacy, marriage, and faith….
10/21/2009 5:02:06 PM
Move over AP Stylebook, there’s a new style guide in town: Fake AP Stylebook, ready to dispense irreverent grammar and style advice via Twitter….
10/20/2009 4:15:39 PM
Just in time for sounding extra-smart when discussing health care, Merrill Perlman dissects the finer points of how to correctly use insure, assure, and ensure….
10/19/2009 9:01:18 AM
Writing in Tin House, Curtis White offers a vivid critique of the mainstream response to the environmental crisis…
10/15/2009 12:34:35 PM
Reading is a supremely intimate act, Adam Sternbergh argues in The Walrus, which makes book club conversations a lot like bawdy locker room talk….
10/13/2009 5:02:57 PM
A groundbreaking composer turns the Alaskan landscape into an orchestra.
10/13/2009 5:01:11 PM
A Guatemalan journalist and his family are terrorized by a gang of thugs
10/13/2009 4:57:56 PM
American patients on a budget travel to Los Algodones, a dental paradise for the underinsured
10/13/2009 4:55:55 PM
As the line between reality and performance blurs, kill increasingly means kill.
10/13/2009 2:38:17 PM
Goretti Kyomuhendo Founding Member, FEMWRITEUtne Reader visionaryNovember December 2009by Staff, Utne Reader
10/12/2009 2:42:58 PM
Ten shots ring out in the neighborhood, but nary a mention is made…
10/9/2009 6:44:47 PM
On Thursday, excited children in classrooms around the world came together to read Eric Carle’s adorable classic ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’….
10/5/2009 10:59:44 AM
You know that funny little red thing on the top of a rooster’s head? It’s called a cockscomb, and it’s delicious….
9/25/2009 12:45:18 PM
A defense of SpongeBob SquarePants’ enduring popularity....
9/23/2009 12:47:44 PM
Writing is hard. That’s what singer/songwriter Gillian Welch and writer Lydia Peelle are talking about in this excerpt from a spirited conversation between the two printed in BOMB....
9/23/2009 9:33:30 AM
Mark Twain wasn’t just a riverboat pilot, a raconteur, a mustache pioneer, and one of the great early American celebrity-authors: He was also an animal rights activist…
9/22/2009 5:05:47 PM
Editors have a hard time resigning themselves to the creeping destruction of the English language....
9/22/2009 4:42:14 PM
Intrigue! Obsession! Money! Obsession! It’s all here, in a very entertaining peek inside the impassioned world of sneaker connoisseurs....
9/18/2009 4:36:23 PM
Canned food is one of the more underappreciated staples of the human diet....
9/18/2009 11:51:05 AM
In case you missed them the first time around...here are the ten most popular reads at Utne.com this week. Enjoy!
9/15/2009 2:46:56 PM
Marshmallow Fluff runs deep in this country....
9/15/2009 2:32:38 PM
Does a literary agent's glum rejection letter to a short story writer signal a new low for the genre, or more of the same? We want to hear from you: Do you buy short story collections?...
9/14/2009 10:00:01 AM
A San Fransisco-based writer is using Google ads to name the lead character in his forthcoming detective novel….
9/11/2009 4:37:07 PM
Literary critics have long argued that novels are inherently anti-religious. This view is overly simplistic....
9/1/2009 5:05:54 PM
The good people at Idiots' Books have invented a new (and delightful) way to tell stories....
9/1/2009 3:58:13 PM
Never read poetry with your mouth shut. You must sputter and spit….
9/1/2009 10:36:55 AM
If you make less than $25,000/year, you can request a free copy of Stephen Elliott’s true-crime memoir The Adderall Diaries….
8/28/2009 4:14:29 PM
In case you missed them the first time around...
8/24/2009 8:06:30 AM
A forthcoming iPhone app from featherproof books, TripleQuick fiction will allow users to download super-short stories and submit their own flash fiction….
8/22/2009 10:54:13 AM
The linguistic origins of chaw, false teeth, and gamahuche...
8/21/2009 10:22:06 AM
Curing your own meat is easy—and there are so many artful ways to display that big hunk of salted pork in your home….
8/19/2009 3:40:24 PM
At their bookstore of the future, books will be manufactured in-house on a print-on-demand machine.
8/19/2009 3:37:47 PM
A review of Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea by Jane Jeong Trenka (Graywolf).
8/19/2009 3:33:21 PM
Review of God Says No by James Hannaham (McSweeney’s).
8/19/2009 3:27:46 PM
A review of The Passion of the Hausfrau: Motherhood, Illuminated.
8/19/2009 10:09:42 AM
Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz tells how he got the inspiration for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao...
8/17/2009 5:08:31 PM
Where capital punishment is a public spectacle
8/17/2009 4:50:32 PM
A woman with cerebral palsy gets comfortable in her own skin.
8/17/2009 4:07:01 PM
Meet Bangkok’s superstitious, intensely territorial, Buddhist rescue workers, who prowl the streets in search of spiritual bragging rights
8/14/2009 2:19:55 PM
Flying cars, unlimited candy, and the magic of electricity! Kids imagine the future and get a few things right....
8/13/2009 1:49:35 PM
The American Book Review queried over 60 people on the future of fiction, and published their answers as a sort-of riotous, quirky, depressing, uplifting roundtable….
8/9/2009 7:45:00 AM
Think you know how to plan a stay-at-home trip? Comic Will Durst says we’re doing it all wrong....
8/7/2009 4:41:54 PM
A little more affection for airplanes could fight the fear of flying....
8/7/2009 7:58:04 AM
When Leah Larson's brother came home from Iraq she wrote about the "unspeakable damage" to her brother and their relationship. And she wrote about GI Joe....
8/6/2009 10:35:27 AM
When living abroad, contradiction is in many ways in the eye of the beholder...
8/5/2009 10:43:26 AM
Writing you must read: Essays, great quotes, reading lists, advice on writing, and other inspirational reading
8/4/2009 11:32:50 AM
Blogging to land a book deal is an ironic twist in the death of print debate....
7/30/2009 1:58:31 PM
So you’re stuck in the hospital, what books do you bring along to keep yourself busy? July 2009 Danielle Maestretti So you’re stuck in the hospital, preparing for or recovering from this or
7/29/2009 5:44:16 PM
Book nerds and children’s lit nostalgics alike were treated today when Twitter exploded with the trending topic #failedchildrensbooktitles....
7/28/2009 4:41:53 PM
A writer takes a thoughtful approach to his hospital reading list....
7/28/2009 11:24:36 AM
Ever feel like you’re trapped in the city, exiled from your natural home in the wilds, longing for some deeper connection with nature? Yeah, me too. That’s why I’ve been enjoying Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s new book, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness...
7/23/2009 12:38:38 PM
You only have so much time, don't waste it on the wrong books....
7/23/2009 9:50:40 AM
Writer Daniel Radosh eulogizes his former high school English teacher Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the book Angela’s Ashes...
7/22/2009 11:35:29 AM
What the Beatles might have been in the 1970s….
7/17/2009 11:58:58 AM
You're a foreign journalist locked up in a notorious Iranian prison facing espionage charges, how do you pass the time? You ask your interrogators for their reading suggestions, of course!...
7/17/2009 11:46:42 AM
A comic depiction of the cyclists that rule our roads….
7/16/2009 4:18:37 PM
The writers Will Self and Geoff Nicholson go back and forth about the lost art of walking....
7/16/2009 11:30:41 AM
Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy....
7/15/2009 12:44:46 PM
People can get very creative with 20 words when there’s a good-looking, functional bicycle at stake….
7/14/2009 3:41:19 PM
Forget all of the life-of-a-writer garbage that pops up in blogs and on the shelves of Barnes & Noble, the fabulous Gay Talese leads by example. Here, in all of its eccentric glory, is a sketch of his workday....
7/13/2009 9:57:59 AM
One writer explains our food television trends in terms of meat and sexiness….
7/10/2009 3:57:29 PM
Some good reading you might have missed....
7/7/2009 1:09:40 PM
The obituary for this teetotaling mother and an indifferent housekeeper from Ohio ought to be a lesson to us all....
7/7/2009 12:52:48 PM
Last year there were more than 275,000 new books published in the United States. That got Virginia Quarterly Review’s Jacob Silverman thinking: does every book deserve a review?
7/2/2009 5:17:07 PM
Fourth of July reading and some Utne blogs you may have missed!...
7/2/2009 3:41:58 PM
The new issue of Represent, a magazine by and for young people in foster care, focuses on mental illness....
7/2/2009 1:08:19 PM
The latest, downsized volume of the Oxford Junior Dictionary replaces entries like leopard and passenger pigeon with blog and blackberry....
7/1/2009 4:44:10 PM
A mother drops off her 12-year-old and her friend at the mall with three younger children in tow. She’ll be charged with endangering their welfare….
7/1/2009 11:07:27 AM
Fancy ice can improve your summer cocktail....
6/29/2009 1:24:31 PM
All over Iraq, American forces are striking camp and withdrawing from cities. Here's a snapshot of the withdrawal, with an eye for the details most news reports leave out....
6/26/2009 3:15:55 PM
Excerpts from a jazz memoir in verse
6/25/2009 8:22:38 AM
A librarian shares her favorite works of zombie literature (plus some choice zombie movies, too!)….
6/24/2009 4:17:05 PM
For those who want spicier love lives, or at least to read about them....
6/23/2009 12:17:47 PM
Who would say no to 60,000 rhyming couplets? Our favorite Iran reading list yet....
6/19/2009 5:08:23 PM
The very best of a week's worth of Utne blogs....
6/19/2009 11:00:54 AM
Writers speculate why we're so obsessed with "I"....
6/18/2009 5:29:04 PM
Trees of all sizes loom large in the world of Linda Underhill, the author of the new book The Way of the Woods: Journeys Through American Forests. Underhill’s writing is clear, crisp literary journalism, moving with an understated grace as she covers specific types of forests...
6/18/2009 12:46:30 PM
Non-Mormon Scott Carrier delivers a dry and humorous ode to this beautiful high desert basin....
6/18/2009 10:50:34 AM
The New York Times’ audience, erudite as they may be, can still be stumped by words like antediluvian, sumptuary, or hagiography....
6/17/2009 11:13:40 AM
Just in time for summer, The Believer recommends eleven essential nonexistent books, perfect for anyone who’s looking to either not read or imagine to read....
6/16/2009 4:29:17 PM
Chronogram, a socially-minded magazine serving New York’s Hudson Valley, has a great summer reading list for children (from picture books to young-adult readers)….
6/15/2009 1:56:08 PM
Are genre categories like poetry and prose just so 20th Century? The editors of Dislocate seem to think so....
6/12/2009 2:41:19 PM
From giant, barred bird-cage enclosures to tiny stucco patios, maisonneuve captured the allure of balconies everywhere with a lovely ode to the lost art of balcony culture….
6/11/2009 2:09:50 PM
Behold the capercaillie, a large, elusive grouse that’s the object of much bird-watching lust across the pond....
6/9/2009 4:50:54 PM
Chatting with undertaker Thomas Lynch about his writing
6/9/2009 3:51:29 PM
Anyone can be a bad travel writer. It’s as easy as using clichés, not quoting locals, and writing about your husband Larry as much as possible....
6/9/2009 1:59:05 PM
There’s a forgotten world that lies beyond the tourist maps and double-decker bus tours of New York City....
6/8/2009 3:42:52 PM
Piano burning should really be done with an upright piano; the structure is much more beautiful than that of a grand when you watch it burn.
6/8/2009 3:31:14 PM
We have arrived at simultaneously the most and least civil moment in U.S. history...
6/8/2009 3:23:20 PM
Who needs to know those gougères are stuffed with Spam?
6/8/2009 2:53:49 PM
The awesome task of dismantling a marvelous beast
6/8/2009 2:09:36 PM
Busy executives don’t have time to fire all the employees they need to in the midst of this financial crisis, and human resources departments can be expensive. Now, Netloss can do the work for them....
6/5/2009 5:14:02 PM
The best of the Utne Reader blogs from the last week. Have a great weekend!
6/5/2009 11:52:12 AM
Call it Street Lit, Ghetto Lit, Urban Fiction, or Gangsta Lit, but this genre exploded onto the literary scene in 1999 and now has cultural critics scratching their heads and mainstream publishers salivating....
6/2/2009 3:47:17 PM
“Once, the person introducing me bit his tongue so badly that blood poured over his necktie onto the index card on which he had inscribed my entire life….”
6/2/2009 2:58:06 PM
The story of the death and burial and 15-year-old Delvon Reshad Butts ought to be read aloud in every journalism school classroom in America....
5/29/2009 4:54:11 PM
The best of the blogs. We did this for you....
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