November 2011
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More Love for Love and Shame and Love
“That’s one of the refreshing aspects of Peter Orner’s Love and Shame and Love: It isn’t a political novel per se, but the Chicago men and women who inhabit these pages exist in a world we recognize, where government is…
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FUNNY WOMEN #67: Carl Jung’s Epiphany Cakes
David Cronenberg’s recent thriller A Dangerous Method is about Carl Jung’s steamy and exuberantly fanciful affair with his very young patient, Sabina Spielrein. Here is a recipe to match:
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“The Wizard of #OWS”
“We are not the leaders, but we did spark it.” Guernica chats with Kalle Lasn, the editor in chief of Adbusters.
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WHERE I WRITE #20: Towers Diner
Author and artist Cassie J. Sneider dishes about her favorite writing spot:
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Aural Fixations, the Rumpus Mixtape #1: Pastoral
Pastoral. For a long time we’ve thought of that simply as pastures, poetry about streams and paintings of lush, lime green grass. Cows. Works by Virgil. A certain longing for the countryside. Shepherds. Hills rather than towns. Yes all of…
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An Occupy LA Roundup
I like Balloon Juice blogger mistermix’s take on last night’s eviction of the LA Occupiers. “There was a chance that cold weather in the North, and general boredom in the South, would cause the Occupy protesters to quietly lose interest…
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Maakies Holiday Edition
MAAKIES: Ornaments, 2011 A very special Rumpus Comic: Free holiday ornaments from Tony Millionaire!
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The Rumpus interview with Jóhann Jóhannsson
The Icelandic musician and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson specializes in disparate, subtly moving themes and careful musings on the ways in which industry and society intersect.
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Tahereh Mafi Interview
Jacket Copy spoke with Tahereh Mafi about Shatter Me, the first book in her young-adult trilogy. Mafi discusses how the idea for the main character’s “girl-with-the-lethal-touch” idea arose and whether there are similarities between the character and herself: “She kills…
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The Flame an Upright Leaf
Grappling with the problems of an adolescent entering adulthood in a society skewed by violence and oppression, Adam Foulds’ narrative poem is an intellectual, visual, and sensual triumph.
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Dream City
Salon kicked off a new column called Dream City with an exploration of how “cities of the future” are being designed. “…The inescapable truth is that the new urban reality we’ve created — the one with spiffed-up boulevards and cutting-edge…