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• Foodie Alert: New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 17,000 Restaurant Menus (1851–2008), 04 Sep 2014 in Archives&Design&Food & Drink&History
• Haruki Murakami Lists the Three Essential Qualities For All Serious Novelists (And Runners), 03 Sep 2014 in Writing
• Extensive Archive of Avant-Garde & Modernist Magazines (1890–1939) Now Available Online, 02 Sep 2014 in Archives&Art&Literature&Magazines
• Conspiracy Theory Rock: The Schoolhouse Rock Parody Saturday Night Live May Have Censored, 02 Sep 2014 in Animation&Comedy&Media&Politics&Television
• Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Traffic & Other Bands Play Huge London Festival “Christmas on Earth Continued” (1967), 29 Aug 2014 in Music
• Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Gets Adapted Into an Avant-Garde Comic Opera, 28 Aug 2014 in Music&Opera&Philosophy
• How to Listen to the Radio: The BBC’s 1930 Manual for Using a New Technology, 27 Aug 2014 in Radio
• Philosopher Alain Badiou Performs a Scene From His Play, Ahmed The Philosopher (2011), 26 Aug 2014 in Philosophy&Theatre
• Flannery O’Connor Explains the Limited Value of MFA Programs: “Competence By Itself Is Deadly”, 25 Aug 2014 in Education&Writing
• Miles Davis’ Chili Recipe Revealed, 23 Aug 2014 in Food & Drink&Music
• Watch a Hand-Painted Animation of Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”, 22 Aug 2014 in Animation&Literature
• Did Joe Strummer, Frontman of The Clash, Run the Paris and London Marathons?, 21 Aug 2014 in Music&Sports
• Folger Shakespeare Library Puts 80,000 Images of Literary Art Online, and They’re All Free to Use, 20 Aug 2014 in Art&Literature&Museums&Theatre
• The Glossary Universal Studios Gave Out to the First Audiences of David Lynch’s Dune (1984), 18 Aug 2014 in Film
• Wattstax Documents the “Black Woodstock” Concert Held 7 Years After the Watts Riots (1973), 16 Aug 2014 in Music&Politics
• Ernest Hemingway: T.S. Eliot “Can Kiss My Ass As a Man”, 15 Aug 2014 in Literature
• Robin Williams & Bobby McFerrin Sing Fun Cover of The Beatles’ “Come Together”, 14 Aug 2014 in Comedy&Music
• Tap Into Timeless Wisdom: Download 36 Free Courses in Ancient History, Literature & Philosophy, 14 Aug 2014 in Education&History&Literature&Online Courses&Philosophy
• Read 12 Stories By Haruki Murakami Free Online, 13 Aug 2014 in Literature
• Italo Calvino Offers 14 Reasons We Should Read the Classics, 12 Aug 2014 in Literature
• Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School: Apply & Learn the Art of Guerilla Filmmaking & Lock-Picking, 11 Aug 2014 in Film
• Finnish Musicians Play Bluegrass Versions of AC/DC, Iron Maiden & Ronnie James Dio, 08 Aug 2014 in Music
• The Religions of Bob Dylan: From Delivering Evangelical Sermons to Singing Hava Nagila With Harry Dean Stanton, 08 Aug 2014 in Music&Religion
• John Lennon Writes Eric Clapton an 8‑Page Letter Asking Him to Join the Plastic Ono Band for a World Tour on a Cruise Ship, 07 Aug 2014 in Music
• Hear Michel Foucault’s Lecture “The Culture of the Self,” Presented in English at UC Berkeley (1983), 06 Aug 2014 in Philosophy&UC Berkeley
• Ray Bradbury: “I Am Not Afraid of Robots. I Am Afraid of People” (1974), 04 Aug 2014 in Letters&Literature&Sci Fi&Technology
• James Brown Blows Away the Rolling Stones in 18 Electric Minutes (1964), 01 Aug 2014 in Music
• Allen Ginsberg & The Clash Perform the Punk Poem “Capitol Air,” Live Onstage in Times Square (1981), 31 Jul 2014 in Music&Poetry
• 11-Year-Old Martin Scorsese Draws Storyboards for His Imagined Roman Epic Film, The Eternal City, 30 Jul 2014 in Film
• Hear Roland Barthes Present His 40-Hour Course, La Préparation du roman, in French (1978–80), 30 Jul 2014 in Literature&Online Courses&Philosophy
• Greek Myth Comix Presents Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey Using Stick-Man Drawings, 28 Jul 2014 in Comics/Cartoons&Education&K-12&Literature
• Why R.E.M.‘s 1991 Out of Time May Be the “Most Politically Important Album” Ever, 25 Jul 2014 in Music&Politics
• Theodor Adorno’s Philosophy of Punctuation, 24 Jul 2014 in Philosophy&Writing
• Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, “The Black Man in the Cosmos”, 21 Jul 2014 in Music&Philosophy&UC Berkeley
• George Harrison Wrote His Last Letter to Austin Powers Creator Mike Myers, Asking for a Mini Me Doll (2001), 19 Jul 2014 in Comedy&Letters&Music
• Blues Guitar Legend Johnny Winter Shines Live on Danish TV (1970), 18 Jul 2014 in Music
• Charles Bukowski Rails Against 9‑to‑5 Jobs in a Brutally Honest Letter (1986), 17 Jul 2014 in Letters&Life&Literature
• 5 Wonderfully Long Literary Sentences by Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Other Masters of the Run-On, 16 Jul 2014 in Literature&Writing
• Ayn Rand Trashes C.S. Lewis in Her Marginalia: He’s an “Abysmal Bastard”, 15 Jul 2014 in Books&Philosophy&Religion
• Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock (1969), 14 Jul 2014 in Music
• What Did Jane Austen Really Look Like? New Wax Sculpture, Created by Forensic Specialists, Shows Us, 14 Jul 2014 in History&Literature
• Slavoj Žižek Charged With Plagiarizing A White Nationalist Magazine Article, 14 Jul 2014 in Current Affairs
• Flannery O’Connor’s Satirical Cartoons: 1942–1945, 10 Jul 2014 in Comics/Cartoons&Creativity&Literature&Writing
• Johnny Cash Reads the New Testament, 07 Jul 2014 in Music&Religion
• Steven Pinker Uses Theories from Evolutionary Biology to Explain Why Academic Writing is So Bad, 04 Jul 2014 in Education&English Language&Harvard&Psychology
• 5 Musical Guests Banned From Saturday Night Live: From Elvis Costello to Frank Zappa, 03 Jul 2014 in Music&Television
• Watch 1970s Animations of Songs by Joni Mitchell, Jim Croce & The Kinks, Aired on The Sonny & Cher Show, 02 Jul 2014 in Animation&Music&Television
• Sonny Rollins Describes How 50 Years of Practicing Yoga Made Him a Better Musician, 30 Jun 2014 in Creativity&Health&Music&Religion
• Digital Dubliners: Free, 21st Century Ways to Read Joyce’s Great Story Collection on its 100th Anniversary, 26 Jun 2014 in Literature
• Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones & The Beatles Played on a 3‑String Electric Mountain Dulcimer, 26 Jun 2014 in Music
• Animated Films Made During the Cold War Explain Why America is Exceptionally Exceptional, 25 Jun 2014 in Animation&History&Politics
• Jorge Luis Borges: “Soccer is Popular Because Stupidity is Popular”, 24 Jun 2014 in Literature&Sports
• Soviets Bootlegged Western Pop Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples, 24 Jun 2014 in Film&History&Music
• A Free Playlist of Music From The Works Of James Joyce (Plus Songs Inspired by the Modernist Author), 23 Jun 2014 in Literature&Music
• Mavis Staples and The Band Sing “The Weight” In Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz (1978), 21 Jun 2014 in Music
• Hear Isolated Tracks From Five Great Rock Bassists: McCartney, Sting, Deacon, Jones & Lee, 20 Jun 2014 in Music
• Carl Jung Writes a Review of Joyce’s Ulysses and Mails It To The Author (1932), 18 Jun 2014 in Letters&Literature&Psychology
• Hear Roger Waters’ Early, Work-in-Progress Recordings of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, 17 Jun 2014 in Music
• The Making of Queen and David Bowie’s 1981 Hit “Under Pressure”: Demos, Studio Sessions & More, 16 Jun 2014 in Music
• Isolated Drum Tracks From Six of Rock’s Greatest: Bonham, Moon, Peart, Copeland, Grohl & Starr, 13 Jun 2014 in Music
• Famous Writers’ Report Cards: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, E.E. Cummings & Anne Sexton, 13 Jun 2014 in Literature
• Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Destino: See the Collaborative Film, Original Storyboards & Ink Drawings, 12 Jun 2014 in Animation&Art&Film
• John Lennon Illustrates Two of His Books with Playful Drawings (1964–1965), 12 Jun 2014 in Art&Music
• The Hobbit: The First Animation & Film Adaptation of Tolkien’s Classic (1966), 10 Jun 2014 in Animation&Literature
• Rik Mayall Voices the Animation “Don’t Fear Death” Just Months Before His Untimely Passing, 10 Jun 2014 in Animation&Life
• Botticelli’s 92 Surviving Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy (1481), 09 Jun 2014 in Art&Literature
• David Gilmour & David Bowie Sing “Comfortably Numb” Live (2006), 06 Jun 2014 in Music
• Stephen King Reveals in His First TV Interview Whether He Sleeps With the Lights On (1982), 05 Jun 2014 in Books&Film&Literature
• Jimmy Page Describes the Creation of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”, 04 Jun 2014 in Music
• Eudora Welty Writes a Quirky Letter Applying for a Job at The New Yorker (1933), 03 Jun 2014 in Letters&Literature
• 2 Hour Annotated Star Wars Film Reveals the Cinematic Influences Behind George Lucas’ Classic Film, 02 Jun 2014 in Film
• 19th Century Caricatures of Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H.M. Stanley & Other Famous Victorians (1873), 30 May 2014 in Art&History&Literature
• Designer Massimo Vignelli Revisits and Defends His Iconic 1972 New York City Subway Map, 29 May 2014 in Design
• Maya Angelou Reads “Still I Rise” and “On the Pulse of the Morning”, 29 May 2014 in Poetry
• Read 9 Free Books By Noam Chomsky Online, 28 May 2014 in Books&Politics
• Lewis Carroll’s Photographs of Alice Liddell, the Inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, 27 May 2014 in Literature&Photography
• Music That Helps You Write: A Free Spotify Playlist of Your Selections, 26 May 2014 in Music&Writing
• Audio: The Beatles Play Their Final Concert at Candlestick Park, 1966, 24 May 2014 in Music
• Six Animations of Stories and Poems by Shel Silverstein, 22 May 2014 in Animation&Education&K-12&Poetry
• Revisit the Golden Age of Max’s Kansas City With Film & Audio From The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, Devo & Talking Heads, 21 May 2014 in Music
• Slavoj Žižek Tells Jokes (NSFW), 16 May 2014 in Comedy&Philosophy&Politics
• 13 Lectures from Allen Ginsberg’s “History of Poetry” Course (1975), 15 May 2014 in Online Courses&Poetry
• The Rehearsal Sessions For Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged Appearance (1993), 14 May 2014 in Music&Television
• Catch Stevie Wonder, Ages 12–16, in His Earliest TV Performances, 13 May 2014 in Music
• Such Sweet Thunder: Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn’s Musical Tribute to Shakespeare (1957), 12 May 2014 in Music
• Mark Twain Writes a Rapturous Letter to Walt Whitman on the Poet’s 70th Birthday (1889), 08 May 2014 in Letters&Literature
• Hear the Voice of Arthur Conan Doyle After His Death, 07 May 2014 in History&Literature&Religion
• Do Rappers Have a Bigger Vocabulary Than Shakespeare?: A Data Scientist Maps Out the Answer, 07 May 2014 in English Language&Music
• Sigmund Freud Appears in Rare, Surviving Video & Audio Recorded During the 1930s, 06 May 2014 in History&Psychology
• Vintage Footage of Leo Tolstoy: Video Captures the Great Novelist During His Final Days, 05 May 2014 in Film&History&Literature
• Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music by Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson (1968), 02 May 2014 in Education&K-12&Music&Television
• When Neil Young & Rick James Created the 60’s Motown Band, The Mynah Birds, 01 May 2014 in Music
• Watch Hand-Drawn Animations of 7 Stories & Essays by C.S. Lewis, 30 Apr 2014 in Animation&Literature&Philosophy&Religion
• Hear Led Zeppelin’s First Recorded Concert Ever (1968), 29 Apr 2014 in Music
• Hear John Lennon Sing Home Demo Versions of “She Said, She Said,” “Strawberry Fields Forever,” and “Don’t Let Me Down”, 28 Apr 2014 in Music
• Watch Glenn Gould Perform His Last Great Studio Recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1981), 26 Apr 2014 in Music
• Who Are the Most Pernicious Thinkers? A List of Five Bad Western Philosophers: Name Your Own, 24 Apr 2014 in Philosophy
• Slavoj Žižek: What Fulfils You Creatively Isn’t What Makes You Happy, 22 Apr 2014 in Philosophy
• The Drawings of Jean-Paul Sartre, 21 Apr 2014 in Art&Letters&Philosophy
• Read 10 Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez Free Online (Plus More Essays & Interviews), 18 Apr 2014 in Literature
• John Coltrane Plays the Only Live Performance of A Love Supreme (1965), 17 Apr 2014 in Jazz&Music
• The Secret of Life and Love, According to Ray Bradbury (1968), 16 Apr 2014 in Life&Literature&Writing
• Hear Patti Smith Read 12 Poems From Seventh Heaven, Her First Collection (1972), 15 Apr 2014 in Poetry
• Oxford University Press Gives You Free Access to Books, Dictionaries & More During National Library Week, 15 Apr 2014 in e-books&Education
• Vintage Audio: William Faulkner Reads From As I Lay Dying, 14 Apr 2014 in Audio Books&Literature
• Download 50,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More, 12 Apr 2014 in Art
• Richard Dawkins’ Documentary The God Delusion Tackles Faith & Religious Violence (2006), 09 Apr 2014 in Film&Politics&Religion
• Human, All Too Human: 3‑Part Documentary Profiles Nietzsche, Heidegger & Sartre, 08 Apr 2014 in Philosophy
• Free Online Shakespeare Courses: Primers on the Bard from Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley & More, 07 Apr 2014 in Literature&Online Courses
• Old Books Bound in Human Skin Found in Harvard Libraries (and Elsewhere in Boston), 06 Apr 2014 in Books&History
• Watch The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain on the 20th Anniversary of the Musician’s Suicide, 05 Apr 2014 in Music
• How a Young Sigmund Freud Researched & Got Addicted to Cocaine, the New “Miracle Drug,” in 1894, 03 Apr 2014 in Psychology&Science
• Read an Excerpt of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1926 Translation of Beowulf Before It’s Finally Published Next Month, 02 Apr 2014 in Books&Literature&Poetry
• Beautiful Equations: Documentary Explores the Beauty of Einstein & Newton’s Great Equations, 01 Apr 2014 in Math&Science
• New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free to Download and Use, 31 Mar 2014 in History&Maps&Technology
• Hear Allen Ginsberg’s Short Free Course on Shakespeare’s Play, The Tempest (1980), 28 Mar 2014 in Education&Poetry
• Watch a “Lost Interview” With Michel Foucault: Missing for 30 Years But Now Recovered, 28 Mar 2014 in Philosophy
• Richard Feynman on Religion, Science, the Search for Truth & Our Willingness to Live with Doubt, 27 Mar 2014 in Religion&Science&Television
• Bruce Springsteen and Pink Floyd Get Their First Scholarly Journals and Academic Conferences, 26 Mar 2014 in Education&Music
• Michel Foucault and Alain Badiou Discuss “Philosophy and Psychology” on French TV (1965), 25 Mar 2014 in Philosophy&Psychology
• Herbie Hancock Presents the Prestigious Norton Lectures at Harvard University: Watch Online, 24 Mar 2014 in Harvard&Music&Philosophy
• Pink Floyd Plays With Their Brand New Singer & Guitarist David Gilmour on French TV (1968), 22 Mar 2014 in Music
• Read All of Shakespeare’s Plays Free Online, Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library, 21 Mar 2014 in Books&e-books&Education&Literature
• Publisher Places a Politically Correct Warning Label on Kant’s Critiques, 20 Mar 2014 in Philosophy
• Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World Documents the Life of the Bizarre Occultist, Poet & Mountaineer, 20 Mar 2014 in History&Literature&Religion
• A Reading of Charles Bukowski’s First Published Story, “Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip” (1944), 19 Mar 2014 in Literature&Writing
• A History of Pussy Riot: Watch the Band’s Early Performances/Protests Against the Putin Regime, 18 Mar 2014 in Current Affairs&Music&Politics
• William S. Burroughs Teaches a Free Course on Creative Reading and Writing (1979), 17 Mar 2014 in Literature&Writing
• Sid Vicious Sings Paul Anka’s “My Way” in His Own Spectacular Way, 17 Mar 2014 in Film&Music
• Orson Welles Reads From America’s Greatest Poem, Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” (1953), 13 Mar 2014 in Literature&Poetry
• The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks, 12 Mar 2014 in Books&Education&Literature
• Free Course: “Darwin and Design” Examines Philosophical Questions of Intelligence and Human Behavior, 12 Mar 2014 in Education&Philosophy&Science
• Monty Python Sings “The Philosopher’s Song,” Revealing the Drinking Habits of Great European Thinkers, 11 Mar 2014 in Comedy&Philosophy
• Stephen King Creates a List of 96 Books for Aspiring Writers to Read, 10 Mar 2014 in Books&Writing
• William S. Burroughs Reads From Naked Lunch, His Controversial 1959 Novel, 07 Mar 2014 in Audio Books&Literature
• The Last Time Lennon & McCartney Played Together Captured in A Toot And a Snore in ’74, 06 Mar 2014 in Music
• Wes Anderson’s Favorite Films, 05 Mar 2014 in Film
• Louis Armstrong Plays Historic Cold War Concerts in East Berlin & Budapest (1965), 04 Mar 2014 in History&Music
• The First Episode of The Johnny Cash Show, Featuring Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell (1969), 03 Mar 2014 in Music&Television
• R.E.M Plays “Radio Free Europe” on Their National Television Debut on The David Letterman Show (1983), 01 Mar 2014 in Music&Television