From the 2022 edition of the literary annual NOON, which will be published this month. The four-poster double bed from the redbrick house took up most of the new bedroom,…

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Adapted from the essay “Histories, I,” included in the collection In the Margins, which will be published this month by Europa. Translated from the Italian. Anyone with literary ambitions knows…

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From The Very Last Interview, a collection of questions loosely adapted from interviews with the writer David Shields, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. Any…

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From accounts of calls made by a dog to a human using DogPhone, a toy ball that initiates a video call when moved. The experiments were recounted in Proceedings of…

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From reports of statements made by Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, since 2017. The coronavirus was released as a terror attack on the economy of the world Chemtrails left by aircraft…

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From One Pill Can Kill, a document published in December by the DEA that purports to demonstrate how emojis are used in text conversations about drugs. percocet and oxycodone: 💊…

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From December headlines in the New York Times that were altered after publication. The changes were detected by the @nyt_diff Twitter bot, which automatically tweets alterations to the Times website.…

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From Late Fragments, which will be published next month by Yale University Press. Translated from the French. A frightful-looking man comes in and looks at himself in the mirror. “Why…

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From a report, published in November, of an uncooperative passenger entered into Delta’s Aircraft Communications, Addressing, and Reporting System. FI DL1360/AN N326US<< DT DDL CVG 021734 M22A<< – 3401/02 KSYR/KATL…

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From letters exchanged in 1982 between the Whitney Museum of American Art and an author and critic referred to here as E.R. Harper’s Magazine obtained the letters in November.  …

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From the lyrics of a song sung in Polish by a plush dancing cactus. The toy is marketed as an educational tool for children and was sold on Walmart.com until…

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From promotional materials for a mobile field altar. In October, the Polish defense ministry announced plans to purchase three hundred altars, which reportedly included chalices, crosses, candlesticks, and camouflage liturgical…

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From The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, which will be published this month by Verso. The everyday life of the segregation era is not much discussed outside academia. More…

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From an interview with Jim Puckett, the mayor of Fitzgerald, Georgia, that was conducted in November by the CBC Radio correspondent Carol Off. Puckett lost his 2021 bid for reelection…

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From complaints submitted to the City of Reno, Nevada, last year. One night this summer I was walking with my wife and two friends from out of town. We witnessed…

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From “License to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate,” a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which compares the evolution of James Bond’s salary with that…

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From “Animal, Vegetable, Capital,” an essay that appeared in Issue 3 of Lux Magazine. Recently, following some rounds of trial and error in search of food that wouldn’t upset my…

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From Portrait of an Unknown Lady, a novel, which will be published next month by Catapult. Translated from the Spanish. I had been working in the art valuations department at…

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From “Why yachting families make great climate caretakers,” which was published in November on the website Superyacht Life. The average superyacht is estimated to produce 7,020 tons of carbon dioxide…

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From a list of accidental damage done to works of art since 2000, collected in Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World, which will be published this…

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From A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, a poetry collection, which was published in April 2021 by Wave Books. You want money to flow into the house like water…

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From “How to Be Married,” an essay in the collection How to Be Normal, which will be published next month by Belt Publishing. For some of us, there’s a season…

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From Pure Colour, a novel, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mira left home. Then she got a job at a lamp store. The lamp…

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From Little Elegies for Sister Satan, a poetry collection, which was published in May 2021 by New Directions. Here, Sister, it can be said that good-by means hello, day night,…

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From Corruptible, a book of non-fiction, which was published in November 2021 by Scribner. 1. Steve Raucci was far from the top of the district pecking order. He made $37,500…

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From Sentence, a memoir, which will be published next month by Viking. The entire time I was in prison, I owned a typewriter, and it was on this typewriter that…

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From fund-raising emails sent by the campaign of former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for a second term in 2021. I’m going to level with you:…

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From “7417 Hollywood Boulevard,” which was published in October 2021 in the fourth volume of his All Night Menu series, a history of Los Angeles in five installments. Each booklet…

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