2010
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Ten Beetles Humming
Illustrations by Jan Kubicek for Broukalo si deset brouků by Oldřich Syrovátka (1974, Prague):
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The Monthly Rumpus: January
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Warm Bodies, Cold Nights” January 10th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS Featuring authors Derrick Brown, Bucky Sinister, Andrew Nelson, Peter Orner, and Amber Tamblyn! A performance by Abe…
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Hammer Is the Prayer of the Poor and the Dying
For [Christian] Wiman, form is the fire his feet are held to. It’s the syntactic embers that burn, the linguistic flames that flare. At no point does Wiman let the reader forget he is reading poetry.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everyone likes a good vintage Christmas ad, am I right? Michael Wolf takes pictures of crowded Japanese commuter trains. Behold the unicow! Have you checked out Google Body Browser yet? I am pretty sure Google is slowly taking over the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Skloot
Bestselling author Rebecca Skloot is everywhere these days. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, was over ten years in the making and was recently dubbed a Notable Book of 2010 by The New York Times.
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“Escape From Spiderhead”
The New Yorker has posted George Saunders’ latest short story in its entirety. Enjoy.
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Jonathan Evison
“I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it. Then, when I was 40, somebody decided to start publishing me.” PW profiles novelist Jonathan Evison and takes a look at his second book,…
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“A life changer!”
“THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much.” Larry David takes to the NYT opinion pages to say…