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Lit REACTOR, fair use Raymond Chandler, along with Dashiell Hammett before him and Ross Macdonald after, effected a startling change in the crime novel. As Chandler put it, he took the novel away from those who commit murder with “hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish” and returned it to “the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.” This passage from Chandler’s essay explaining his technique in “The Simple Art of Murder” is drippi...

Lena Dunham wants everyone deserves a good miniskirt — not just thin women. The actress-slash-writer-slash-director has spent years in search of short skirts that fit her body, mostly to no avail. “I can’t wear it because I’m basically showing what my mother would refer to as my pupik,” she quipped to the New York Times. Thanks to Dunham’s new plus-sized fashion line, designed in collaboration with the upscale plus-sized e-retailer 11 Honoré, that’s about to change. Now, women wi...

Tim Miller 5 ARTICLES 0 COMMENTS Tim Millers poetry and essays have appeared in Parabola, The Wisdom Daily, Jewish Literary Journal, Crannog, Southword, Londongrip, Poethead, and others across the US and UK. Two recent books include Bone Antler Stone (poetry, The High Window Press) and the long narrative poem To the House of the Sun (S4N Books).

Rare gold coin sells for $9.36 million at Texas auction by The Associated Press Last Updated Jan 22, 2021 at 11:14 am EDT This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows a rare gold coin made by a noted craftsman in New York in 1787 that has sold at auction in Dallas for $9.36 million. Heritage Auctions offered the New York-style Brasher Doubloon Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, as part of an auction of U.S. coins. Heritage says the sale is the most ever paid for a gold coin at auction. (Heritag...

Rare gold coin made in New York sold for $9M Published  FILE - Generic gavel on wooden table. NEW YORK - A rare gold coin made by a noted craftsman in New York in 1787 has sold at auction in Dallas for $9.36 million. Heritage Auctions offered the New York-style Brasher Doubloon on Thursday evening as part of an auction of U.S. coins. Heritage said the sale is the most ever paid for a gold coin at auction and the buyer wished to remain anonymous. "The Brasher Doubloons, for coin collectors, ...

Finest Brasher Doubloon, 1804 Plain 4 Eagle Offered by Heritage Auctions   Dallas and on HA.com. “We expect nothing short of a new world record amongst the rarest and most valuable issues in the history of American coinage,” said James Halperin, Co-Founder of Heritage Auctions. “These auction events are unlike anything we have ever offered.” The auctions were scheduled to be offered during the Jan. 7-10 Florida United Numismatics (FUN) Convention, which was canceled due to concerns o...

December 3rd, 2008 She stormed the charts this year with her love it/hate it single I Kissed A Girl. Now bi-curious pop princess Katy Perry talks DiS through her ten favourite tracks. --- Paul Simon – Something So Right One of my favorite producers and leader of the Katy Perry movement, Glen Ballard, played this song for me one day on his beautiful white piano at his white studio, The High Window, and the lyrics resonated with me. Sometimes it is hard to get used to something so right. Girls...