2011
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Revolutionary Letter #1” by Diane di Prima
The summer I turned 19, after my first year of college, I took off, leaving behind my small midwestern campus, to work in a gift shop in Yosemite National Park. That’s a whole other story, and maybe someday I’ll tell…
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Can’t Quite Remember that Book Title?
Another modern tool to help you make that extra memory leap has been born. If you have a book somewhere in the recesses of your mind but can’t quite grasp the specificities of the title or author, you can post…
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Times New Roman’s Dramatic Past
The history of the New Times Roman font involves the artistry of a yacht-maker (William Starling Burgess) plagiarism (by one Stanley Morison) and the truth’s delayed discovery by a Canadian printer (Gerald Giampa) almost seventy years later. The font’s initial…
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Wings Wands Stars Tulle
These poems have all the instinct and fangs of a canine, and the plush, electric fur of a wolf: the intensity and sheer quality of workmanship in the poems is impressive.
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The Help
There has been much analysis of the recently released blockbuster adaptation of the bestselling novel, The Help. Last week Professor Melissa Harris-Perry began live-tweeting as she sat through the movie, concluding that it “reduces systematic, violent racism, sexism, and labor…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Stay away from me hyper-aggressive rats! It’s always a good day to think about world’s fairs of the past. Scientifically explaining drunk vision. Literary pets are also wonderful things to talk about.
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“The Happy Accident of the Cut-Out”
William S. Burroughs discusses how to construct (or rather deconstruct) Dadaist poetry in this video. Tristan Tzara’s influence guide on how to make Dadaist poetry was integral to his series of novels, The Nova Trilogy.
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“Let’s Talk About Us”
The Rumpus and the Believer Magazine Proudly Present: “Let’s Talk About Us” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! September 12th, 7pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring brilliant authors Michelle Tea, Susan Straight, Jesus Angel Garcia, David Rocklin, and…
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The Elusive Shining
The first time The Shining was screened on national television, viewers were informed that the “film deals with the supernatural, as a possessed man attempts to destroy his family.” Is that a presumptuous interpretation of what happened in The Shining?…