2009
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Assisted Discipline
From a tool as simple as a stopwatch to something called Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die, Meghan Ward has posted a collection of “Gadgets to help you write.”
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Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint
In a time of twitter novels and short stories laid out a 140 characters at a time, Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, is going in a different direction. Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint is, as Rombes…
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Morning Coffee
What to get the Rumpus for Christmas. The sounds of dripping glaciers, printed onto the glaciers from whence they came. We here are entirely in favor of book based art. Tom Bendsten makes some pretty good ones. This has been…
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Henry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy
Thinking back on his first stay in Hollywood, Miller often reminisced about the Green House, “where I made so many watercolors, sold them for a song or for an umbrella I had no use for, but where I also made…
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A Kaddish for Jewish Zines
Gawker’s proclamation of the “Heeb Magazine Deathwatch” got me thinking again about “radical Jewish culture”, but this time in terms of it’s short life, possible death, and whether the tag really means anything other than getting donors to contribute to…
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Random Media Notes
Google helps newspapers erect online pay walls. The Federal Trade Commission examines possible support for news organizations. Rupert Murdoch plans $15 million New York edition of The Wall Street Journal. As The New York Times staff shrinks, blogs will be…
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DFW’s Grammar Challenge
“IF NO ONE HAS YET TAUGHT YOU HOW TO AVOID OR REPAIR CLAUSES LIKE THE FOLLOWING, YOU SHOULD, IN MY OPINION, THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SUING SOMEBODY, PERHAPS AS CO-PLAINTIFF WITH WHOEVER’S PAID YOUR TUITION” Do you think you have what…
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Ramona Falls: “I Say Fever”
“My favorite music video of the year.” –Dan Chaon (via @Danchaon) Read The Rumpus interview with Chaon here. [Editor’s note: This song has been featured as a Rumpus Tune of the Day.]
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(Large) Stocking Stuffer?
Rumpus books editor Andrew Altschul‘s first novel, Lady Lazarus, is on sale for an obscenely low price this holiday season: for less than $7 (with shipping) you get the mint-condition hardcover at used-paperback price. San Francisco Magazine calls the book…