Ancient Grains Archive
What Should We Fling Dramatically Into The Fireplace?
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Nov 12, 2013
A few suggestions.
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How To Tell If You Are In A 1950s-Era Alfred Hitchcock Movie
Ancient Grains, Movies
Nov 12, 2013
Previously: How to tell if you are in a Haruki Murakami novel.
1. You are on a train, but no one can find you. You are leaning out of your car window making cryptic statements about love to a man you have only just met. Your silhouette is impossible.
2. You are doing
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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 12, 2013
Ariel Levy's piece in The New Yorker. I want to make it very clear that this is the saddest story in the world, and it will be a very long time before you may also be able to understand how it is also a ...Read More
Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut
Ancient Grains, Writing
Nov 11, 2013
The moment Kurt Vonnegut entered my life is seared indelibly in my memory. It stands out starkly, like my first period or my first kiss. All of those memories share a common theme: afterwards, my life was forever changed. I was thirteen, and my friend’s unusually permissive mother left me unsupervised in
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Rita Levi-Montalcini: Kicking Ass and Doing Science
Ancient Grains, History
Nov 11, 2013
Alexis Coe’s past essays on women’s history for The Toast can be found here. Most recently: Ada Yonath: The Birth of a Scientist. This, and all subsequent editions of Alexis' columnn (!) are brought to you courtesy of a sweet and generous sponsor who wishes to be known as
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BIG DEAL: Introducing the My Life in Middlemarch Book Club
Ancient Grains, Books
Nov 11, 2013
We here at The Toast are delighted and excited to formally announce our first big communal book-reading exercise, which will be challenging and fun and gripping and life-affirming and a wonderful bonding experience for us all.
We are going to be reading TWO books together: George Eliot's
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Energy Drink Sommelier
Ancient Grains, Food
Nov 11, 2013
Bienvenue, Monsieur. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the energy drink sommelier here at Le Coeur Palpitant. My goal is to help you power through tonight’s meal with grace and élan.
Le Coeur Palpitant boasts one of the finest cellars of non-perishable energy drinks from all over the world, including some
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Imagery I Did Not Understand Until It Was Explained To Me
Ancient Grains, Poetry
Nov 11, 2013
I never know when someone's on drugs or had plastic surgery, or when a poem is supposed to "really" be about sex even though it's clearly about plants. I never get metaphors. Everything always has to be explained to me, like Ax in the Animorphs series.
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