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“Well, we’ve just started doing this. Only a couple of the letters are already written. I know Tao Lin is doing his by hand, and illustrating it. Then we’ll photocopy it and send. I think the authors are going to have a lot of fun with the form.”
AdAge talks to our own Stephen Elliott about the Rumpus’s new Letters in the Mail subscription.
...moreCan you be in San Francisco on February 14th? Are you willing to discuss your experience in front of an audience? If so, email Sugar AT therumpus.net!
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Hey folks, we’re going to take it easy this week.
That being said, we’d never leave you all alone. Here are a few things Alec has ollied (we have no idea who Alec is).
...moreThe New York Times has published a fascinating (and heartbreaking) three-part examination of the life and death of professional hockey player/enforcer Derek Boogaard.
From childhood dreams to devastating addiction and brain damage, reporter John Branch’s bloody but beautiful profile of “The Boogeyman” is not to be missed.
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Cassie J. Sneider sent us a lil’ piece she drew recently (based on this well-known photograph) that we just had to share.
Catch it in all its glory after the jump:
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Cool thing #1: Jane Marie, co-editor over at The Hairpin (a site we ♥), included Sugar’s Write Like a Motherfucker mug on her list of “Gifts for Dudes.” (Thanks Jane, we love you back!)
Cool thing #2, though, is that the story doesn’t end there.
...more“We are not the leaders, but we did spark it.”
Guernica chats with Kalle Lasn, the editor in chief of Adbusters.
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Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton draws Joan Didion and Vendela Vida in conversation at City Arts & Lectures.
...more“I’ll know it when I see it. That was Jobs’s credo, and until he saw it his perfectionism kept him on edge.”
Malcolm Gladwell examines (what be believes to be) “the real genius of Steve Jobs.”
...morePeter Orner’s new book, Love and Shame and Love, got some *ahem* love today from the New York Times.
No surprise to us though, as the book is our November selection for The Rumpus Book Club (which, it’s worth mentioning, you can sign up for here).
...moreLongreads.com, which links to “the best long-form stories on the web,” has picked Rebecca K. O’Connor’s beautiful essay “What We Lost When We Lost Barbara Jean” as one of their selections today.
Thanks Longreads.com, we love you back!
...more“We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.”
OccupyWriters.com has some new original work posted today, including “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance” and “The Great Unrest” by D.A.
...more“It’s liberating. Fight Club is what bought me my freedom. When you think about so many people—Burroughs, you think of Naked Lunch—so many people are just identified by one work. So it’s not so unusual. Ken Kesey, you think of Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Mother Jones talks with Chuck Palahniuk about his new novel Damned, writing through tragedy, and “hazardous masturbation methods.”
...more“What books should I read?”
That’s the question a brave eight-year-old girl asked Christopher Hitchens at the Dawkins Award ceremony in Houston, TX. Click here to learn what happened next.
...more“Our cult of decade anniversaries—the tenth of 9/11, the twentieth of ‘Nevermind’—are for the most part mere accidents of our fingers: because we’ve got five on each hand, we count things out in tens and hundreds. And yet the fifty-year birthday of a good children’s book marks a real passage, since it means that the book hasn’t been passed just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to child again.”
Adam Gopnik explores “Fifty years of The Phantom Tollbooth.”
...more“A prerequisite for any successful revolution is literature.”
In case you missed it: we posted a story by Matthew Wolfe about “The Occupy Wall Street Library” over the weekend.
...moreBay Area Readers: don’t miss tonight’s McSweeney’s 38 Release Party at Amnesia (853 Valencia Street) featuring Chanan Tigay and Nathaniel Rich! The event kicks off at 6:30pm, and is sure to be a blast. Hope to see you there!
...moreFrom the “Things Making Us Smile This Friday” files: Jill Filipovic of Feministe calls Sugar “a national treasure” and “the best advice columnist on all of the interwebs.”
...more“Finally, something should be said for the fact that although I like to identify myself with punks and outcasts and ‘fringe culture’ (whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean), the truth is that Juggalos are the real outcasts, they’re the no-bullshit, real deal, persecuted losers that made a culture that no one is supposed to understand based on their desire to belong to a family of misfits.”
A manifesto in defense of Juggalos (or, perhaps more apt, a plea to stop mocking them).
...moreVery sad news from the NYTimes: “Supreme Court Will Not Stop Davis Execution.”
For live updates follow @kimseverson.
Update: “Troy Davis dead at 11:08.”
...moreTomorrow Canongate, Julian Assange’s former publisher, plan to “publish ‘the unauthorised first draft’ of his autobiography without his consent, months after the WikiLeaks founder withdrew from a million-pound contract for his memoirs.”
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