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Cars

This new Italian supercar turns a Porsche 911 into an 800-hp custom machine

Project 754 takes the familiar Porsche 911 formula in a completely different direction. Angelelli Automobili has reworked the platform with a new body, custom aerodynamics and two different driving layouts. The company plans to produce only 50 cars. Two personalities, up to 800 hp, extensive use of carbon fiber, and only 50 examples were planned.

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Books

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Review – The final part of the Harlem Trilogy is super fun. Imagination

IIn the summer of 1977 a lightning strike struck a substation on the Hudson River, knocking out power throughout New York City. A wave of looting spread over two nights of darkness as teenagers from Harlem and the Bronx stole expensive items from downtown stores. They took the speaker system and turntables to experiment at

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Books

Colson Whitehead discusses ‘Cool Machine,’ the third book in his Harlem Trilogy series

NPR’s Ayesha Rasco talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead about his new book, “Cool Machine.”

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Cars

1955-1957 Chevy Tri-Five: America’s Time Machine

Every generation has a car. Rarely does that car become anyone’s car Everyone generation. Some cars are built with rocket speed to win races and break speed records. Some become demonstrations of innovative engineering. Others are the steel workhorses of the home – ferrying families to work and school – quietly turning a vehicle into

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Men's Health

The Collectors Who Built Magnolia Pearl’s Charity Machine Before Anyone Called It That

Taylor Swift wore pieces from the label long ago folk literature ERA – An option covered without any contract and without any promoter –magnolia pearl A dedicated collector community was doing something the fashion industry rarely sees. They were reselling the brand’s clothing at prices far above retail value, not because they were selling the

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Men's Fashion

Why Machine Washable Custom is Unusual – Sustainable Style

This particular jacket from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury is machine washable. This is very rare – why? First, most good tailored jackets are made with canvas in the chest and melton below the collar, both of which do not react well to machine washing (even at cold temperatures). They become deformed and may shrink. Second, jacket

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Books

“The novel is not a machine”

This first appeared in Lit Hub art of writing Newsletter—Sign up here. Article continues after ad One often finds literary editors, critics, and some fiction writers talking about novels as if they were mechanical things, machines with fine or less fine tools, designed to provide a multi-layered chain of events in which certain human beings,

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