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December 2011

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Spotlight: Adrian Tomine

  • Emma Silvers
  • December 29, 2011
Like most things I liked when I was sixteen, I first got into Adrian Tomine’s comics because of my older sister, who let me borrow her early issues of Optic…
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Chris Huntington: The Last Book I Loved, The Brothers Karamazov

  • Chris Huntington
  • December 28, 2011
We were in the “international bookstore” of Xiamen, China, which is really a Chinese junk and bookstore but has half a dozen shelves of English books (such as Gossip Girl and 7 Habits…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #5: Maudlin

  • Anna March
  • December 28, 2011
Maudlin:  a feeling we don’t so much encounter as create.  A sad place with funereal bits and a ladle of self-pity. Darker than Fitzgerald’s dark night of the soul, it…
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Hotdog Hustle

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • December 28, 2011
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The Last Book I Loved: Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

  • Kerry Cullen
  • December 28, 2011
I was browsing through my favorite small indie bookstore (Farley’s in New Hope, PA; it’s magnificent) when the cover and title of this book captured my eye. A book displaying…
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Their Faces Blur in Every Mirror

  • Joey Connelly
  • December 28, 2011
Darling writes with incredible crispness, but the world she describes remains cold, stark, upper-class, and difficult to relate to.
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Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

  • Sean Carman
  • December 28, 2011
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa’s 1977 novel, begins with an epigraph–a quote from Salvador Elizondo’s The Graphographer–about the watery line between reality and its representation in language.…
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Rumpus Original Poetry: A History of Melancholia: Glossary of Terms

  • Rumpus Original Poems
  • December 28, 2011
beloved. The raison d'être of the melancholic's affliction. Consider the graceful line of his wool coat, its fabric dark against the towering snowdrifts.
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Did You Write a Letter that Sugar Answered?

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • December 27, 2011
Can you be in San Francisco on February 14th? Are you willing to discuss your experience in front of an audience? If so, email Sugar AT therumpus.net!
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The Bins

  • The Rumpus
  • December 27, 2011
THE BINS: Sky Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lucas Adams.
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THE BINS:
Sky

  • Lucas Adams
  • December 27, 2011
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Behind the Scenes of a Regular Sugar Reader

  • Chloe Caldwell
  • December 27, 2011
Sugar writes words that I would like tattooed on my tongue. That I want stitched onto my childhood quilt since I can’t actually stitch my heart up with them.
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