June 2010
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The Indistinct Fuzz of a General Rain
World Enough is, despite the sometimes soft dulled-razor language, an incredibly smart, idea-driven book, and the in-charge idea and/or force seems to be America, viewed both from within the country and elsewhere.
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Birds Caught in the Oil
“AP Photographer Charlie Riedel filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming…
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Morning Coffee
Post-monument at the International Sculpture Biennale. This is a story about the flotation dynamics of giraffes. Being a scientist is AWESOME. Via @rosieate. Inhabitat looks into this year’s awesome World Cup stadium. The Soviet Lord of the Rings. And now…
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Tracey Wigfield
[L]et me introduce my former student Tracey Wigfield, who is now a writer for the television program 30 Rock. I am so happy for Tracey that I am now weeping inconsolably.
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Annals of Advertising: “A Man’s Land” (But Also Cartoon Bears)
Those were the days, back when you could use cartoon bears to sell beer. More from the annals of advertising.
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June is Novella Month
How’s this for a definition of novella: “a novella, I think, looks through the narrow lens of a short story, and with a short story’s intense focus, at a small, precise part of the world, but it treats what’s within that…
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Bowden On Juárez
“The way I was trained, reporters went toward the story, just as firemen rush toward the fire. It is a duty. As it happens, I am a coward and would rather write about a bird or a tree. But, I…
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Laryssa Wirstiuk: The Last Book I Loved (Poetry Edition), The Stranger Manual
In “Miss Peach: The College Years,” a five-section poem from Catie Rosemurgy’s latest collection The Stranger Manual (Graywolf Press, 2010), the young, female speaker confesses: “No one knows I am the flower, the bee, the wind, the rain, the dirt: all…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #39: The Baby Bird
Dear Sugar, WTF, WTF, WTF? I’m asking this question as it applies to everything every day. Best, WTF Dear WTF, My father’s father made me jack him off when I was three and four and five. I wasn’t any good…
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Rumpus Original Art By Ian Huebert
Today’s hilarious send-up of teaching in the modern age by Daniel Stolar, “RE: Online Course Evaluations,” features art by Rumpus contributor Ian Huebert. Be sure not to miss Ian’s fantastic comic, Pornographic Barn Owl, and to check out more of his…
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Disconnect
“Among the thronged walking paths, mobbed booths, and snaking lines for book signings at this year’s Book Expo America, it was hard to reconcile the show’s booming attendance with the seemingly endless reports of an industry on life support.” Brian…