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Huh
Is on Everyone’s Tongues, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
February 27, 2014
On the Shelf
A confused London storefront. Image via Instagram
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America—arguably the closest thing our nation has to a band of superheroes—has announced
the nominees for this year’s Nebula Awards
. Nicola Griffith,
interviewed on the
Daily
last month
, is up for best novel; and Samuel Delany, interviewed in
the Art of Fiction No. 210
, has won what’s surely the most finely named lifetime-achievement award in the land, the Damon Knight Grand Master Award. Congratulations to both!
Today in common ground for humankind:
every language contains the utterance “huh.”
Let’s say it together.
“
I don’t think I have the right kind of books for homeless people
.”
Cosmopolitan
’s sex tips have probably never been anything to write home about, but this one
is especially bad
. It involves a glazed doughnut, and its origins are in a 1995 “sexual recipe book” called
The Foreplay Gourmet
.
Introducing “normcore,” fashion’s latest, most unremarkable trend: “
The kind of dad-brand non-style
you might have once associated with Jerry Seinfeld.”
An update to
Tuesday’s note on the Voynich manuscript
: a medievalist named Stephen Bax claims to have
discovered a way of decoding it
.
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