2009
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Raymond Carver: Behind the Prose
In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Stephen King has written a review of Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka. King begins with a summation of Carver’s semi-amazing alcoholism and then moves on to a dissection of…
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Woman Whose Bio Resembled Novel’s Character Awarded $100K
A woman who claimed a novelist and former friend based the character of a sexually promiscuous alcoholic on her has won a $100,000 libel award from a Georgia jury. Vicki Stewart claimed that Haywood Smith, a former childhood friend, used…
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Morning Coffee
Flavorwire on the loss of Pop-up pioneer Wally Hunt and the best Pop-up Books of all time. I don’t know how people made found art before google maps. It is pretty terrifying to imagine being fully conscious and in a…
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R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman Talk Comics
Spiegelman says that superhero comics were read by the kids who beat them up. Crumb adds, “Cute animals were good.” Spiegelman agrees.
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Wish You Were Here
Rumpus Street Team Leader Sona Avakian will be reading at a highly-anticipated and soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed event at 826 Valencia on December 5th in San Francisco. At WISH YOU WERE HERE, Sona will read along with Sarah Fran Wisby, author of Viva…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/23-11/29
This week in San Francisco: Brooklyn’s own Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School comes to 111 Minna, Dorian Katz conducts a “panty exchange” as part of the one-night-only art show, Everything Must Go!, and vegetarians take over as an annual mass tryptophan…
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If Twitter Is a Person, Then What am I?
Seriously. Time Magazine originally started out selecting a “Man of the Year” as a way to sell magazines in the down holiday season, which then turned into “Person of the Year”. Now they’re thinking of naming Twitter as 2009’s Person…
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What About All That Pornography?
“People want peace, and when given a voice, they’ll work tirelessly for it,” said Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson. “In the short term, a Twitter account may be no match for an AK-47, but in the long term the keyboard is mightier…
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EMERGENCY DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column: What’s a Girl to Do About Glenn Beck?
As for the fate of the country, my money is on roving diesel mobs. But then, my money has always been on roving diesel mobs.
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Xtravaganza and Michael Kors in the House
On Saturday, November 14, 2009, I attended “MODA, La Envidia Xtravaganza Ball.” The ball was a drag competition hosted by Hector Xtravaganza at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza, which was attended by Michael Kors, fashion designer and judge of the…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/23-11/29
This week in New York Justin Taylor and literary collective Wu Ming read, Tim Burton exhibit opens, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage and other films screen, Julian Plenti performs, a short video helps you tighten your table-side manners for…