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2010
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Endearing Wrecks
“Bloom’s characters, I’m happy to pronounce, are glorious, endearing wrecks. They are simultaneously loyal, petty, resentful, and compassionate. They are vain, horny, bullheaded, and brave. In their messy assemblage of…
Basic Phrenology
Jiří Šalamoun is a “Czech artist, graphic designer, and illustrator (b.1935, Prague), who specializes in book illustration, cinema poster design, typography, chromolithography, and silk-screen printing.”
Morning Coffee
Internet gold. (via @TheLincoln) The 200 best and worst jobs in the U.S. Actuary vs. Roustabout edition. A New York resident has recreated Rambo shot for shot in his 220…
The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #2: Dubravka Ugresic on the Danube
Born in the former Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia), Dubravka Ugresic began her career writing children’s television programs and books. In nearly four decades of writing and editing, she has published books…
Write That Damn Novel
I don’t know about you but this is the year I finish that @#$#@%! novel. I got two hundred pages of rough stuff. Real rough stuff. The first novel. The…
A Funny Book About Genocide
“I’d been thinking about writing a book on genocide for some time, but the project really kicked off about a year-and-a-half ago, around the time my wife told me she…
Peter Orner Gets Murky
“It’s said Grandpa Leo got deranged a few years after FDR died. They had to put him in the Home for the Jewish Aged on Petoskey Avenue. He despised the…
Things To Look Forward To In 2010
“The Notebook is the collected entries from 87-year-old Saramago’s blog, O Caderno de Saramago. The book, ‘which has already appeared in Portuguese and Spanish, lashes out against George W. Bush,…
THE BLURB #13: The Anxiety of Influence
Instead of writing this book review, I’ve been pacing around my apartment and slugging absurd quantities of coffee and snarling to myself about slinging postmodern bullshit all over the page.
Eustace Tilley, Your Way
Eustace Tilley appeared on the first New Yorker cover, in 1925, and has returned for nearly every anniversary issue since. For the third year in a row, the New Yorker…