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TODAY: In 1993, Toni Morrison becomes the first black American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.  “Just why The Kite Runner has become so popular isn’t entirely clear to me… but there is a universality to this tale of a boy who feels inadequate and longs for his father’s love.” Khaled Hosseini reflects on
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Photography courtesy of Veronica BeardThe sisters-in-law behind the U.S. brand Veronica Beard might have the same name, but, more importantly, they also share the same creative mind. By Annika Lautens Date October 6, 2023 Facebook Twitter “The uniform for the layered life”— that’s the Veronica Beard motto. As two working moms, Veronica Miele Beard and
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Now that it’s October, the battle is on for the house with the best spooky decorations. One house in particular has a perfectly-synced System of a Down light show with pyro, which makes for an incredible Halloween display. The light show is synced to the band’s massive hit “Toxicity” from their 2001 album of the same name. It was
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In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys a book about the rooms in which great writers worked ‘Writers stamp themselves upon their possessions more indelibly than other people, making the table, the chair, the curtain, the carpet into their own image.’ So wrote Virginia Woolf in Great Men’s Houses (1911),
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Taiwanese-Brooklyn transplant Calvin “Kai-Wei” Chang’s debut album Reprocessor is musical, dense and seemingly done-based, causing it to straddle a number of genres from experimental to darkwave to IDM, but that’s not what sets it apart. It’s the fact that it’s made entirely from found sounds, recorded by Chang between 2020 and 2022; no extra sounds
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