2011
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Questioning Truth in Photos
Errol Morris, the truth-seeker/director of the documentary The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War is once again having us question the facts. His collection of essays, Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) considers our undiscerning…
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Inauspicious News For Our Economy
The whole system of American outsourcing has rendered our industry incapable of producing the next technological innovation, which unfortunately is the key to reconstructing our economy. One example of this is the Kindle. Amazon doesn’t have the means for the…
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Finland’s Got Education Down
This article is a gem from a recent Longreads selection, on the subject of education. Finland’s got an optimally functioning educational system, one that America can learn a thing or two from. Its success is due to its “whatever it…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/29-9/04
This week in New York a Post-Irene Open Slam at louderArts, Word for Word poetry at Bryant Park, The Believer magazine celebrates its music issue, free movie at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Seven Against Thebes at East River Park, MoMA PS1…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As it turns out, construction in LA used to be a lot more visually stunning. What’s up planet made of diamonds? Way to be 100 neon lights! The internet loves scanning things that shouldn’t be scanned. The internet also loves…
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The Rumpus Combo with Sheila McClear
Sheila McClear started stripping because she needed the money. She kept doing it for more complex reasons.
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No Touching of Girls
Gawker contributor and New York Post reporter, Shelia McClears tells of working at the Times Square peepshows in her new book, The Last of the Live Nude Girls.
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The Right Kind Of Comedy
“Jokes about vegans, Tyler Perry or the Gipsy Kings end up being way more volatile than jokes about race, slavery or the Holocaust. Whiteness and Palestine are guaranteed to make folks uncomfortable. ” — Steve Almond interviews Nato Green over…
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The LARB And The New West Coast Excitement
“There has been a dream in literary circles since the late 19th century of wrestling control of publishing from New York. It’s happening.” Tom Lutz of the new LA Review of Books is interviewed on the decentralization of the publishing…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“If there were no such thing as fiction, we’d have had to invent it, if we ever wanted to make sense out of a thing like the Vietnam War.” It would take 53 years to spend one day telling the story…