November 2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Soviets don’t want you to drink (where did we go wrong?) Some variation of this seems to go around every three months, but it’s still always great to see famous rejection letters. Sometimes you have to step back and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Azazel Jacobs
Son of legendary experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, Azazel Jacobs has risen steadily through the independent film scene since his debut in 2003 with Nobody Needs to Know.
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Literature on YouTube
Fiction Circus is campaigning for YouTube to add a “Literature” category to its current list of categories, which includes music, entertainment, sports, news and politics, comedy, and education. “Filling YouTube with literature, like filling a head with infected snot, will…
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Ann Beattie’s Truth About Writers
“Writers wear atrocious clothes when writing. So terrible that I have been asked, by the UPS man, ‘Are you all right?’ An example: stretched-out pajama bottoms imprinted with cowboys on bucking broncos, paired with my husband’s red thermal undershirt (no…
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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE:
The Devil ChildWhat is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics, one for each act. An extraordinary collection of freakish curiosities.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Kadafi’s book bans are over. At The Guardian, on “the many futures of books.” On the lack of literary apps. Three Percent wants you to know what translators look like. (not too bad, not too bad at all.)
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It was one hell of a week at Rumpus Books. Come see what you missed.
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All Over Coffee
Collaboration with Daniel HandlerClick images to enlarge: *** All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. The second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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Undermining Occupy Wall Street
It doesn’t really matter that this memo has come to light–someone is still going to do this. Count on it. Two things interest me in particular about this memo. The first is the idea that “Democratic victories in 2012 would…
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An Occupy Roundup
You might get the impression from this piece that the NYPD isn’t interested in respecting the right of the press to cover stories involving them. That’s certainly the impression I get. Also, NYPD, that person you’re shoving against
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Science Saturday
The first time neutrinos were measured going faster than the speed of light (something heretofore thought impossible), there were questions about the way they were measured. There’s been a second test, and it seems neutrinos might actually be faster than…