2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Google’s merging with Motorola to help it defend its Android OS. These electronic sensors stick to your skin just like a temporary tattoo … but are way cooler. Tired of your roommate’s addiction to annoying TV pundits? This handy device…
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“Books and Babies”
Cambridge University Library has a new exhibit entitled “Books and Babies: Communicating Reproduction,” which explores the ongoing interactions between the “two senses of reproduction” over time. If you cannot make it to England before the end of the year, you…
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Savage Love, Sugar Love
Dan Savage, the renowned journalist behind the sex advice column, Savage Love, is surfing the Sugar wave! He links to Sugar’s last column, agreeing with her relationship advice: “…when I say that people should be realistic, and when I say…
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Women in Fantasy
What is the problem with the representation of women in fantasy? This piece addresses the question, pointing to the lack of fantasy stories that reflect our basic contemporary understanding of history: that women have had agency despite limiting factors, and…
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The Eyeball #41: Talking with Aimee Bender About The 400 Blows
I’ve been writing this column off and on for a few years now and I thought I’d shake it up a bit by turning it into a dialogue.
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Berkeley in SF, This Saturday!
David Berkeley, who has graced us with his musical talents at Rumpus events of months past, is performing this Saturday at Café Du Nord in SF. He has been deemed a “musical poet,” by The San Francisco Chronicle, and his…
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On Writers’ Houses
Visiting writers’ houses does align with everyone’s preferences. This kind of literary tourism isn’t necessarily useful to understanding the artistic sensibilities of the writer who once inhabited it, or is it? April Bernard discusses the internal turmoil that these visits…
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Not Lost, then Lost and Found
Searching for the lost, but once published stories of Dr. Seuss, Charles Cohen unearthed a slew of magazine covers that Ted Geisel had created back in the 1920’s. With some sleuth-style hunting, he found old magazines containing these stories and…
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Patti Smith’s Movie Deal
After winning the National Book Award for her memoir, Just Kids, Patti Smith is venturing into new artistic territory. She is set to work with Tony award-winning playwright, John Logan, to adapt her memoir into a film. As per her…
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Everybody Dies But Me
Everybody Dies But Me is a Russian film documenting the harsh realities of adolescent life in a suburb of Moscow. The film is fortunately available in its entirety right here on Youtube. This is the perfect opportunity to dabble in…
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The Moon Rises
Glen Duncan’s new novel The Last Werewolf is sophisticated and horrifying and elegant and not for Young Adult readers, who would need a thesaurus, a history tutor and sedation.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
It is not often that a book brings me to tears, but this book had me weeping into my pillow for much longer than is considered appropriate. This novel by Junot Diaz is just what the title suggests: the story…