Letters of Note: Nothing good gets away
A beautiful letter from John Steinbeck to his teenage son in love.
A beautiful letter from John Steinbeck to his teenage son in love.
Since the 1960s, the price of one ride on the subway has tracked the cost of an average slice with almost eerie precision.
i’ve been saying that every day is Halloween in Williamsburg. Apparently i’m not the only one who noticed:
How the BBC sounds to Americans.
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“An edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein laid out using characters and glyphs from PDF documents obtained through internet searches. The incomplete fonts found in the PDFs were reassembled into the text of Frankenstein based on their frequency of use. The most common characters are employed at the beginning of the book, and the text devolves into less common, more grotesque shapes and forms toward the end.”
(via Book Cover Archive)
Wonder Bar (1930)
“One of the most controversial scenes in American cinema,” according to reddit.
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Actual title of actual academic paper.