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newsweek: Ben Yagoda helpfully explains the most comma mistakes.  [Illustration by Peter Arkle]

newsweek:

Ben Yagoda helpfully explains the most comma mistakes. 

[Illustration by Peter Arkle]

It was about ti… Ops! Já tava na hora!staff: It’s time to officially welcome Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese to Tumblr’s roster of supported languages! This now makes Tumblr accessible in a total of 11 different languages. To celebrate in Brazil, we’ll be holding official Tumblr meetups/events in Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. And in Portugal, we’re teaming up with Vice in Lisbon to celebrate the Portuguese launches. Join us! To turn on these new localized interfaces on Tumblr, head over to your Preferences page to switch your language settings. And be sure to follow Tumblr’s official Portuguese and Brazilian Staff Blogs, too.

It was about ti… Ops! Já tava na hora!

staff:

It’s time to officially welcome Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese to Tumblr’s roster of supported languages!

This now makes Tumblr accessible in a total of 11 different languages. To celebrate in Brazil, we’ll be holding official Tumblr meetups/events in Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. And in Portugal, we’re teaming up with Vice in Lisbon to celebrate the Portuguese launches. Join us!

To turn on these new localized interfaces on Tumblr, head over to your Preferences page to switch your language settings. And be sure to follow Tumblr’s official Portuguese and Brazilian Staff Blogs, too.

E assim caminhamos…

E assim caminhamos…

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newsweek:

Some powerful photo illustrations come with Foreign Policy’s stunning cover feature on the real war unfolding on women in the middle east, written by the awesome and oh-so-brave Egyptian revolutionary Mona Eltahawy. Read it.

fleurishes:

“What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four stout legs which will never suffer fatigue. We fitted our shoes with tongues as smooth as our own and hung tongues inside bells so we could listen to their emotional language, and because we loved graceful profiles the pitcher received a lip, the bottle a long, slender neck. Even what was beyond us was recast in our image; we gave the country a heart, the storm an eye, the cave a mouth so we could pass into safety.”

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Lisel Mueller, “Things”

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“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.”
Toni Morrison, Jazz (via anaees)
slaughterhouse90210: “Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart’s getting crushed or exalted, even when you’re absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you’re aware that what’s happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This alone, this cruel mixture of consciousness and irrelevance, this built-in hollowness, is enough to account for how pissed off you are.”― Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone

slaughterhouse90210:

“Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart’s getting crushed or exalted, even when you’re absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you’re aware that what’s happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This alone, this cruel mixture of consciousness and irrelevance, this built-in hollowness, is enough to account for how pissed off you are.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Discomfort Zone

newyorker: Blurb Your Enthusiasm Dear Novelist, So you’d be honored if I blurbed your book? Me too! I can hardly wait to dive right in. However, due to the overwhelming number of requests I receive, I have instituted a new, comprehensive pricing system. Before proceeding, please consult this chart for reference. … Your title contains the words “America,” “Dream,” or “Love,” or a version of the construction “Blah and Other Blah-blahs.” (+$150) The first word of your two-word title is a gerund. (+$75) The word after the gerund in your two-word title is a proper noun masquerading as a regular noun, i.e. “Losing Ground,” a novel about a man named Peter Ground. (+$250) Your novel is a retelling of another novel from the perspective of a minor character, a piece of furniture, or a magical being who did not appear in the original. (+$275) Your bio contains a list of wacky jobs you’ve held and/or states that you “divide your time” between two cities, countries, or continents. (+$300) The front matter of your book contains a family tree and/or a map. (+$200) Your book is dedicated to a dead writer you never met. (+$350) - Want Adam Mansbach, author of Go the Fuck to Sleep, to write a blurb for your book? Here’s how much it will cost you: http://nyr.kr/Ij1SdM

newyorker:

Blurb Your Enthusiasm

Dear Novelist,

So you’d be honored if I blurbed your book? Me too! I can hardly wait to dive right in. However, due to the overwhelming number of requests I receive, I have instituted a new, comprehensive pricing system. Before proceeding, please consult this chart for reference.

…
Your title contains the words “America,” “Dream,” or “Love,” or a version of the construction “Blah and Other Blah-blahs.” (+$150)

The first word of your two-word title is a gerund. (+$75)

The word after the gerund in your two-word title is a proper noun masquerading as a regular noun, i.e. “Losing Ground,” a novel about a man named Peter Ground. (+$250)

Your novel is a retelling of another novel from the perspective of a minor character, a piece of furniture, or a magical being who did not appear in the original. (+$275)

Your bio contains a list of wacky jobs you’ve held and/or states that you “divide your time” between two cities, countries, or continents. (+$300)

The front matter of your book contains a family tree and/or a map. (+$200)

Your book is dedicated to a dead writer you never met. (+$350)

- Want Adam Mansbach, author of Go the Fuck to Sleep, to write a blurb for your book? Here’s how much it will cost you: http://nyr.kr/Ij1SdM
newyorker: Blurb Your Enthusiasm Dear Novelist, So you’d be honored if I blurbed your book? Me too! I can hardly wait to dive right in. However, due to the overwhelming number of requests I receive, I have instituted a new, comprehensive pricing system. Before proceeding, please consult this chart for reference. … Your title contains the words “America,” “Dream,” or “Love,” or a version of the construction “Blah and Other Blah-blahs.” (+$150) The first word of your two-word title is a gerund. (+$75) The word after the gerund in your two-word title is a proper noun masquerading as a regular noun, i.e. “Losing Ground,” a novel about a man named Peter Ground. (+$250) Your novel is a retelling of another novel from the perspective of a minor character, a piece of furniture, or a magical being who did not appear in the original. (+$275) Your bio contains a list of wacky jobs you’ve held and/or states that you “divide your time” between two cities, countries, or continents. (+$300) The front matter of your book contains a family tree and/or a map. (+$200) Your book is dedicated to a dead writer you never met. (+$350) - Want Adam Mansbach, author of Go the Fuck to Sleep, to write a blurb for your book? Here’s how much it will cost you: http://nyr.kr/Ij1SdM

newyorker:

Blurb Your Enthusiasm

Dear Novelist,

So you’d be honored if I blurbed your book? Me too! I can hardly wait to dive right in. However, due to the overwhelming number of requests I receive, I have instituted a new, comprehensive pricing system. Before proceeding, please consult this chart for reference.

…
Your title contains the words “America,” “Dream,” or “Love,” or a version of the construction “Blah and Other Blah-blahs.” (+$150)

The first word of your two-word title is a gerund. (+$75)

The word after the gerund in your two-word title is a proper noun masquerading as a regular noun, i.e. “Losing Ground,” a novel about a man named Peter Ground. (+$250)

Your novel is a retelling of another novel from the perspective of a minor character, a piece of furniture, or a magical being who did not appear in the original. (+$275)

Your bio contains a list of wacky jobs you’ve held and/or states that you “divide your time” between two cities, countries, or continents. (+$300)

The front matter of your book contains a family tree and/or a map. (+$200)

Your book is dedicated to a dead writer you never met. (+$350)

- Want Adam Mansbach, author of Go the Fuck to Sleep, to write a blurb for your book? Here’s how much it will cost you: http://nyr.kr/Ij1SdM

(Source: newsweek)

newsweek:

“I’m not angry at my disease anymore, or the hand I was dealt. But I am angry that in our society, it’s acceptable to say mean things about other people’s appearance, especially to their face. It’s not right.”

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Writer (and tumblr!) Kelly Bergin tells us about her own “puffy-face” saga, after four years on the highly toxic steroid prednisone, and says guys, just stop it with saying mean things about how other people look. It’s a great piece. (And it brought her her first hate-tweet, because people are mean. Sorry about that, Kelly!) Send her some love, tumblr!