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Coffee, It’s a Man’s Drink: Esquire’s Vintage Rules for Brewing the Perfect Cup
Coffee, It’s a Man’s Drink: Esquire’s Vintage Rules for Brewing the Perfect Cup

“No aspect of your cooking skill will bring you greater or more lasting pleasure than the ability to prepare the drink that stimulates wit and digestion.”

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Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Playful Self-Portrait in Verse
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Playful Self-Portrait in Verse

Poetic amusement from the only woman who can get away with calling Edmund Wilson “Bunny.”

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Remoralizing Marriage: Dan Savage in Conversation with Andrew Sullivan at NYPL
Remoralizing Marriage: Dan Savage in Conversation with Andrew Sullivan at NYPL

How marriage equality is fortifying the “equality” part rather than compromising the “marriage” part.

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Be All Your Selves: Joss Whedon’s 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Address on Embracing Our Inner Contradictions
Be All Your Selves: Joss Whedon’s 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Address on Embracing Our Inner Contradictions

“Identity is something that you are constantly earning. It is a process that you must be active in.”

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