2011
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Burroughs vs. Capote
“And these people, Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Capote, are just as square as the St. Louis Country Club set I was raised with, and they sensed I was different and never accepted me as one of them.” — Apparently, William S. Burroughs didn’t…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
This story shows that 80% of the Best American Short Story stories come from the same 42 journals, and over half come from the same 12 journals, and, well, to editorialize a little, that seems a little lazy on the…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Happy Sunday to all. Below the fold, a roundup of everything Rumpus Books has been up to this past week.
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Blake Butler on Submissions
At The Awl, Blake Butler has let us in on a little secret: he’s posted a spreadsheet with every piece of writing he’s submitted from 2006 to 2008. It’s an impressively long list that includes where the piece(s) were submitted…
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No Tell Motel is Shutting Down
Brian here, taking a break from unloading and unpacking and sweating (94 degrees? I thought I left Florida!) to post this sad news about No Tell Motel, the online magazine that is going to cease publication this October. No Tell…
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What is Culture?
“Culture is anti-rivalrous. The more people know and sing a song, the more cultural value it has. The more people watch my film Sita Sings the Blues, or read my comic strip Mimi & Eunice, the happier I’ll be, so…
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The California Milk Board Has the Cure for PMS
“Milk can help reduce the symptoms of PMS,” says the new “Got Milk” ads by the California Milk Processor Board. Instead of targeting their ads to women (aka actual PMS sufferers), the board created an “Everything I Do is Wrong”…
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Science Saturday
Jello made from humans? So, maybe you don’t need to force yourself to drink those eight glasses of water a day. What can baboon males teach us about human males? (Or, what we probably could have guessed about men from…
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Saturday Morning Links
Good morning! I’m covering for Brian Spears today, who’s probably unpacking boxes in his new home (or sleeping) as you’re reading these links. Read this feature in The Stranger because it’s beautiful and the title is pretty friggin’ amazing: “My…
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Deborah Rose Reeves: The Last Book I Loved, The House of Paper
The last book I loved is about a woman named Bluma who was, arguably, killed by a poem, and a man called Carlos Brauer who loved books so much he mistook them for his mind, and cemented himself inside them…