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2010

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What’s Your Writing Ritual if Not Dozing Off with Metal Balls in Your Hands?

  • Ben Shattuck
  • September 20, 2010
How do we write? Supposedly Benjamin Franklin, after depriving himself of sleep, would sit with metal balls in his hands, his arms dangling at his sides.  He would fall asleep,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #54

  • Ted Wilson
  • September 20, 2010
DICK CHENEY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Dick Cheney.
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  • Last Book I Loved

The Last Book I Loved: Sailing Alone Around the World

  • Ben Shattuck
  • September 20, 2010
“Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!” – Joshua Slocum, sailing through a storm south of Tierra del Fuego. When Joshua Slocum (author of Sailing…
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  • Other

Chats With Random Men #5: Rajendra

  • Alina Simone
  • September 20, 2010
This week Alina randomly chats with a Nepali poet: 11:07 pm Rajendra Hi madam 11:07 pm Alina Hello sir
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John Knight: The Last Book I Loved, Eros the Bittersweet

  • John Knight
  • September 20, 2010
You’ve got to be good to write about love. You’ve got to be really good. Most of the time, when love is the task, a writer just gets carried away recycling…
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  • Art

The Creative Impulse: A Duet of Sorts

  • John Knight
  • September 20, 2010
There is a romantic idea that great genius emanates from the tower. The novelist, the philosopher, the architect, all retreat to their places of solitude to channel their minds and…
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Culture Death Match #2: Tom Bissell vs. Sarah Vowell

  • Salvatore Pane and Amy Whipple
  • September 20, 2010
Culture Death Match pits Salvatore Pane against Amy Whipple in a point, counter-point battle royal. Today’s bout has them discussing the merits of Tom Bissell’s “Grand Thefts” and Sarah Vowell’s…
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Close to “Highbrow” and “Brilliant”

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • September 20, 2010
Well would you look at that, the Rumpus Book Club‘s September pick, Lan Samantha Chang’s All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, made The New York Magazine Approval Matrix.
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Something That Can Never Be Said with Words

  • Andrea Scrima
  • September 20, 2010
The darkness in Jon Fosse’s work is that of human consciousness confronted with mortality. Yet his characters seem to radiate with a luminous urgency.
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Jake Cline: The Last Book I Loved, Mother Night

  • Jake Cline
  • September 20, 2010
If he had not been such a pacifist, Kurt Vonnegut would have made a hell of a boxer. I say this knowing full well that Vonnegut was not an impressive…
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  • Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • September 20, 2010
The future is now! Spray on fabric.  Oh no, but that’s a common misconception. (via Gerry Canavan.) Birds on a wire as musical notation (there is a surprising amount of…
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The Long Haul #2: Brass Monkey

  • Andrew Altschul
  • September 20, 2010
A year earlier, I’d celebrated my birthday with an all-night bash. The writing was going well, I went out dancing every night. Now I stared into snowy gloom and wondered what I’d been thinking.
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