The Way We Live Now
Two recent books by Asian American writers confront stereotypes while exploring the rich interiority of the characters’ lives.
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2010
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why pandas don’t want to eat you (anymore). The Atlantic brings you your great ideas of 2010. Monday is a good day for octopus based propaganda. On Einstein’s fridge. Let…
James Franco In a Chair On a Stage
The actor/artist/writer/director talks for four hours about his process; young writer takes notes:
Absence of Diversity
“The tokens are out there, getting attention by the white reading public, but most black writers are writing for black readers and getting very little attention from mainstream outlets. Segregation…
“What can we possibly call this if not chaos?”
“Let’s call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we might have had if 9/11 had never happened Reality B. Then we can’t help but…
Zombies in Higher Education
These aren’t the zombies you see in film: according to three Australian professors, the zombies of higher education are “a listless population of academics, managers, administrators and students, all shuffling…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Both Maud Newton and Mark Twain hated the sound of clocks (and unnecessary noise in general). Here’s a blog on what it’s like to win that bad sex award. “I…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
We don’t do end-of-the-year lists here at The Rumpus–we don’t do lists in general–but I’m very much in favor of linking to gift recommendations, so here’s Ron Slate
Wikileaks Roundup
First it was Amazon dumping Wikileaks from its servers (though how much Senator Lieberman had to do with it is up for debate), which raises some real questions for everyone…
Science Saturday
Radioactive mercury splits unevenly during fission. It’s a completely new form of asymmetric fission. This picture of the Nile at night from the International Space Station is nothing short of…
Saturday Morning Links
So, December. So you’re starting a PAC and you need a name for it, something bland and generic and completely de-emphasizing your plan to replace all the caffeinated coffee in…