Ancient Grains Archive
This Week in Reading: Ban These Books
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 23, 2013
Previous installments of This Week in Reading can be found here. Most recently: My Favourite Cookbooks: Part One.
The weirdly long ones that jut out past the edge of your shelf, but if you flip them over and stack other books on top of them, you won't have room to put
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Such A Brave Performance
Ancient Grains, Movies
Sep 23, 2013
It is five years in the future. Instead of having awards shows, once a year the world's most courageous actors are brought to the White House and given medals for their bravery. President Michelle Obama presides over this year's ceremony.
"For portraying an overt racist while not being an overt racist in his
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Literacy: A Short Story
Ancient Grains, Writing
Sep 23, 2013
The summer Adam took a job at the Department of Examinations and Standards was the same his friends had started working for free. People were kinder than they had to be. They looked into their wines and said "Well at least it's writing."
“Writing” in italics.
"At least it's honest." He had replied, more
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Evangelical Sex Stories
Ancient Grains, Religion
Sep 23, 2013
After hearing that my alma mater had fired a member of its theology faculty for coming out as a trans man, I put out a call on Twitter for stories from men who grew up in a deeply religious culture and asked how it affected their
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The Hidden Lives of Human Signs
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 23, 2013
You've seen them on the side of the road: woodland fairies, leprechauns, Easter bunnies, cheerleaders, baseball players, and hula dancers. Also pandas, bumblebees, ladybugs, grapes, the Statue of Liberty, witches, pumpkins, hearts, Dorothies, tuxedoed gentlemen, and snowmen. They dance and gyrate, twirling signs and causing a scene. It's old-fashioned advertising at its
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Texts From The Lorax
Ancient Grains, Books, Texts From
Sep 23, 2013
THAT’S COMPOSTABLE YOU KNOW
I’m sorry?
POST-IT NOTES ARE ACTUALLY COMPOSTABLE
SO YOU SHOULDN’T THROW THEM OUT
Who is this?
I AM THE LORAX
the what
I SPEAK FOR THE TREES
okay well
thanks for the advice
DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN ALSO COMPOST YOUR OWN HAIR
I didn’t know that
YOU CAN
SO ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE THOSE
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“Cherry Jones, At the Peak of Her Powers”
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Sep 23, 2013
There's a lengthy and fascinating conversation with the deliciously talented Cherry Jones in this week's New York Times Magazine, marred only slightly by Alex Witchel's slight preoccupation with Jones' willingness to look like a middle-aged woman on-camera:
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Toast Points: The Week of September 20th, 2013
Ancient Grains, Meta
Sep 20, 2013
On Monday, Mallory took out Jonathan Franzen. We will say nothing else about Monday in deference to the memory of Jonathan Franzen.
On Tuesday, Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman got busy, and Rainbow Rowell spoke out against censorship.
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