2009
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Joyland (It’s Real!)
Joyland, the literary magazine/website that’s “a hub for short fiction,” has opened up a new tab on their website for San Francisco. So for all you SF based writer types: keep in mind that Joyland is looking for submissions.
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Back from The War – Here’s some Ecstasy.
Rates of PTSD for Iraq war veterans have been estimated as up to 35% in a Stanford University study. The Army has reached out to alternative therapies from yoga to reiki to holding and petting an animal, and now…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #12
You don’t have to pay the mafia back if you can outsmart them, Doug. Check out this wig.
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Morning Coffee
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home. Abandoned wood burning stoves. A look inside a San Francisco opium den circa 1889. Rebecca Ward‘s tape installations. Pickled evidence for evolution.
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Conversations About The Internet #4: Brett Gaylor on Filesharing and Remix Culture
In setting up Open Source Cinema, I was inspired by the open source software process – software that people can contribute to and change and collectively build. And I thought that idea applied really well to documentary film. I thought,…
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SMALL POTATOES: Better Than Caffeine
On Tuesday, November 24th, four limited edition prints from Paul’s new yearly series Album will be released by 20×200.com. If you choose to log on to 20×200, you can have a chance at getting one of ten prints being released…
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Sunday Political Links
People seemed to like the political links last week, so here are some more. Enjoy! If you are an evil person, becoming a lawyer for a military contractor is a great career move. How Louis Armstrong fought anti-Semitism (via) A…
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Tobias Wolff On Short Stories
“(T)he only real people left who write short stories now are people who write literary short stories, if you will. And they are a little more demanding than the average novel; they don’t tend to have neat tied-up endings, which…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Good morning! I’m up against a pretty nasty deadline, so blogging might be a bit light today. In the meantime, here’s some links for you from the book blogs. What is the state of reading among the armed forces in…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books reviewed a novel by Stephen Fink, a collection of short stories by Bonnie Joe Campbell, and a book of nonfiction by Ethan Brown.