Improvising a Bone Graft
Very gradually, this frantic activity ceased to be simply an expression of emotional distress—what the grief experts call “searching behaviour”—and started evolving into a digital, extended elegiac project.
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Posts Tagged: Tumblr
The Ghost of Mary MacLane
An average American newspaper-reader in the first decade of the last century immediately understood, if he read that something was “of the Mary MacLane type,” that this name was shorthand for outsized self-absorption of a specifically feminine nature.
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The Last Book I Loved: I Love Dick
The front cover of the last book I loved bears neither gold seals nor laurels to rest on. If you’re looking for flashy art direction, keep moving. Here, there’s just a shadowy still life photo (inventory: one open notebook, one glass ashtray, one bowl, two pens, many loose leaves of paper)
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Last Book I Loved + Tumblr Storyboard
We’re thrilled to be partnering with Tumblr Storyboard!
Building on our Last Book I Loved series, we’re teaming up to highlight Tumblr writers and the books they love.
Got a book you can’t stop thinking about? Send us a writeup – a little bit book review and a lot about why you loved it – along with a short bio.
...moreTurn Your Blog Into A Book
GIF connoisseurs and fanfic devotees, all that effort you’ve put into polishing your blog to a perfect gleam might finally pay off.
Chronicle Books is looking for the next great humor book, and they want you to pitch them via Tumblr.
...morePen & Ink, The Book!
Big news from Rumpus managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald and artist Wendy MacNaughton:
Pen & Ink, the duo’s Tumblr devoted to tattoos and the stories behind them, will be made into a book!
The book promises favorite classics along with never before seen pieces.
...moreReal Talk from Your Editor
Check out this amazing Tumblr. The Rumpus editorial board is particularly fond of this one: When all of the important national mag awards go to white dudes.
(Via Xtina Richards)
...moreCelebrate Poetry (Tonight!)
Knopf and Tumblr are presenting a celebration of poetry tonight at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC. The event will feature Poet Laureate Philip Levine and 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy K. Smith, along with poets from the Tumblr community, Saeed Jones and Karolina Manko.
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Celebrate Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Month, Knopf and Tumblr are teaming up for a poem-a-day celebration. You can follow and submit your own poetry here.
The Knopf/Tumblr duo will host an event on April 23th at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, featuring readings by Poet Laureate Philip Levine, Rumpus Book Club author Tracy K.
...more“The Faces of Black Men”
“Somewhere between the inaccurate and distorted media images of the black male super predator and the black male superhero, live the majority of black men.”
The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education has created a Tumblr dedicated to moving past media myths and representing “the everyday lives of black men.” Anyone can submit images with brief descriptions of “the boys, men and male-identified folks in your life.” Check out the blog’s archive.
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Exploring how and why publishers are using Tumblr to grow an online presence, Publisher’s Weekly converses with Rachel Fershleiser, who does literary strategic outreach for the microblogging company.
“Branding is an online capability; you can give readers a real sense of what sets your books apart.
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