June 2010
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Alan Horn: The Last Book I Loved, One Hour of Television
“I was stimulated deep in my brain and thought: yes: Wal-Mart: the cradle of Rome. And the Lottery Corporation of Canada is beholden to me. See, we have all worked very hard to put value down on paper, and I…
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Wells Tower Wins Young Lion Fiction Award
Wells Tower went home last night with the New York Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Award. Presumably because he’s been nominated for several awards and not won, a friend of his whom I spoke to at the event said that…
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Morning Coffee
Before they are gone forever, Mission Mission points us to this look back at the SF Muni Fastpass. The great dying. Its been a while since I’ve linked to beautiful vintage matchboxes. This shoe is very old (and Armenian). Department…
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GENERATION GAP #3: Vickrey After Salinger
Why has the work of Robert Vickrey, one of the last living masters of egg tempera, remained so obscure?
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Learning French, And Other Escapes
“Here I am wanting some other language to rescue me, wanting some escape route, when the very desire to transform, to mean something in the world, to take to the air, is such a chubby little caterpillar urge. If I…
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Tao Is Still Taking Questions
“also, would you consider answering questions like these continuously until everyone got bored asking you questions?” “yes, i am now committed to doing that until [an unknown time]” Author Tao Lin will be answering any and all questions asked here…
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Demanding a Degree of Strangeness
“It might be your own past, or even just the tomb of someone you’d forgotten and who, awakened from the deep slumber of oblivion, comes to life and steps onto the page and, like a magician, plucks out of the…
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Why I Studied The Humanities
“Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No matter what you do in life, you will have a huge advantage if you can read a paragraph and discern its meaning (a rarer talent than you might suppose)……
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #40: Be a Warrior for Love
I believe there is a divine spirit in each of us.
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How to Break Up with Your Girlfriend in 64 Easy Steps
We’ve taken this video out of the archives and re-posted it in honor of today’s story “The Exit Interview: A Conversation with My Ex-Boyfriend,” by Elissa Bassist. Bassist originally posted this video last year, along with a short discussion about…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #5: Jen Percy in Conversation with April Somdahl
On February 20, 2007, April Somdahl’s brother Sgt. Brian Rand shot himself near Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He had just returned from Iraq and was about to become a father. Nearly everyday while Brian was deployed, April spoke with him over…