2011
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Dark Matter
As scientists search for the “God particle,” The Awl explains some things about Higgs and gives us a glimpse into the world of physicists and all their certainty. “Physicists do the most lovely thing: they quantify conviction. They know what…
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A Decade of Stopping The War
Stop The War: A Graphic History captures the images—photographs, posters, graphics, cartoons and art—of a decade’s worth of the stop the war movement in the UK. The Guardian gives us a sampling of the book with this gallery.
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FUNNY WOMEN #69: Pitches for the Lifetime Movie Channel
Dear Lifetime Channel, I’m delighted to see Lifetime breaking new ground in source material for feature films, tapping directly into the zeitgeist and speaking straight to the next generation of viewers, in the 140-character terms they understand best.
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Tweets: The New Money
“Pay with a Tweet allows writers, publishers, musicians, artists and companies to set up social network exchanges. Readers simply click on the “Pay with a Tweet” button on the website, downloading book excerpts, eBooks, music and other goods in exchange…
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Best American Reading Tonight!
Join Tom Barbash and Mac McClelland, contributers to The Best American Nonrequired Reading for a reading and benefit for 826 Valencia. The event is at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza tonight at 6pm. If you missed McClelland reading at last night’s Rumpus…
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More on Amazon’s Assholery
“As I see it, the problem with Amazon stems from the fact that though it started out as a bookseller, it isn’t anymore, not really. It sells everything now, and it sells it all aggressively. Maybe Amazon doesn’t care about…
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Light
New in English, Andrzej Stasiuk’s novel Dukla is more of a verbal painting than a novel, but his exquisite descriptions are worth the reader’s work.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s hard not to be in the holiday mood when gingerbread geodesic domes are involved. Cool hunting brings you the best photographs of the Miami Art Basel. You know what have always been cool? Machines. Here’s your waste treatment facility…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with T. R. Hummer
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with T. R. Hummer about his poetry collection Ephemeron.
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“A Night of Truth and Lies” Tonight!
The Rumpus and Mother Jones Magazine are teaming up for the December Monthly Rumpus, “A Night of Truth and Lies.” Join us tonight(!), 7pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring authors Anna Pulley, David Rocklin, Mac McClelland,…