June 2010
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The End of Advances?
“There are many arguments for and against the no-advance model, but I think it’s best summed up as follows: publishers will be much more willing to take risks on new authors if they don’t need to pay an advance, but…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #15: Ru Freeman in Conversation with Lorraine Adams
Lorraine Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and critic whose work centers on the encounter between the American enterprise and those caught in violent conflict in the Islamic world. Her most recent novel is The Room and the Chair.
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Notable New York, This Week 6/28 – 7/4
This week Keith Gessen and HFM present “Diary of a Very Bad Year,” Justin Taylor goes guerrilla at the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series, Ed Park, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Greenman at a “Word for Word” lunchtime event, Paula Abdul…
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Morning Coffee
It’s Monday, so why not start your week with a little french twee art installation. Eric Spitznagel talks to Buzz Aldrin and the world is better for it. Dutch bike corridors (are pretty cool). Did you read this article about…
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The Rumpus Interview with Vendela Vida
“With every book you write you limit yourself a little bit because you can’t do the same thing again. I’ve written two novels about people in their 20s—with this one I wanted to write about a woman looking back on…
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Here’s Some Stories I Like
I get bored easily, so rather than the political links I usually run on Sundays, I’m gonna switch it up. Instead, here’s a list of five awesome and fun and weird and very short stories that I happened to come…
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Your Conflict iPhone
“An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones, laptops and digital cameras — are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo.” Nicolas Kristof…
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On The Benefits Of Being A Slut
“Surprised and interested, I visited the (The Nervous Breakdown), and what I saw was awesome. Hundreds of contributors–some rock stars, some mid-list, some hacks just getting their wings–all mish-mashed together on a content heavy website, driven by community and lots…
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How To Go Over The Top
“One is drawn to Camp when one realizes that “sincerity” is not enough. Sincerity can be simple philistinism, intellectual narrowness.” From Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp,” excerpted over at GIANT.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup, Pride Edition
It’s pride weekend here in San Francisco (holy crap it’s turning 40!). Here’s some other things that are awesome and gay. Here’s an interview with the 15 year old kid who’s taking on librarians for not having enough LGBT material.…