2010
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
At last, Billy the Kid may be pardoned. Rock art is alive! (woo!) Everyone loves a good old space book. I honestly have no idea what is going on here, but I like these Norwegian city proposals quite a bit,…
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Reading Habits of the Service Industries, Part One
Nick Delany turned up at a reading I gave at the Brooklyn Museum in November of 2010. He remarked, during the question and answer portion of the event, that he had mostly been reading just one book for the last…
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PFC Bradley Manning Update
PFC Bradley Manning is the man accused of providing classified information to the Wikileaks project. He is currently being held in the brig of the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, VA, where he has been for the last five months.…
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Wrecked City
Michael Chabon talks about “what he was able to salvage from the wreck of Fountain City,” his novel that never saw the light of day (until now that is, as “an annotated, four-chapter fragment” has been published in McSweeney’s 36).
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“Any favorite writing exercises?”
“Eavesdrop and write it down from memory–gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop! Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #36: Tom DeMarchi in Conversation with Angie Lucas
Angie is my nineteen-month-old son Charlie’s nanny. She’s been living with us since October 12, 2010. Angie is thirty years old, and is currently reading John Williams’s novel Stoner.
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Run-On
“Even if the World’s Longest Sentence record is fraught with asterisks […] the allure of the form is, well, longstanding.” Ed Park, whose own novel Personal Days ends with a sentence over 16,000 words long, discusses the “Very Long Sentence”…
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Shape of a Key, of a Dog, of a Letter
Cassian’s strongest poems–and there are many of them in Continuum–function in this way, where the initially familiar becomes a catalyst for something pleasurably disorienting as she subverts the expectations that she initially led us to have.