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kottke.org: Ernest Hemingway's standing desk
I really need to find/take a picture of the mounted Kudu (lesser?) in our basement….
The internet is going through a bit of a thing with standing desks right now, fueled by yesterday’s The Wirecutter article about them. One of the most famous standing desk enthusiasts was Ernest Hemingway.
The introduction of this 1958 Paris Review interview with Hemingway briefly…
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Wha? Will have to try this later….
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A Girl and Her Room
The Daily Beast’s Lizzie Crocker reviews an exhibit of photos by Rania Matar at Umbrage Gallery in Brooklyn. See more of Matar’s photos on The Daily Beast.
Teenage girls in their castles, er, bedrooms.
Miles Davis, NYC, 1949
photo: Herman Leonard
“As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.” ― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
Burroughs!
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