March 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-6) →
Bon Iver (16)
The Bird and The Bee (5)
Rilo Kiley (5)
Andrew Bird (4)
Camera Obscura (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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This American Life #317: Unconditional Love →
psychotherapy:
Hard as it is to believe, during the early Twentieth Century, a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible thing to give a child. The government printed pamphlets warning mothers against the dangers of holding their kids. The head of the American Psychological Association and even a mothers’ organization endorsed the position that...
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““One of the things that was really difficult for me when my sister died...”
– Jill Bialosky, in ‘History of a Suicide,’ finds words to talk about the hush-hush topic of suicide - latimes.com
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“You are hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad.”
– Boris Pasternak, when handing off the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago to an Italian publisher. The New Criterion has a terrific article up about Pasternak, and the new English translation of Zhivago by Pevear and Volokhonsky. (via thebronzemedal) 