2011
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The Largest Intercultural Exchange
A summer spent abroad at an Indian call center sheds light upon the many people who work in business process outsourcing, a competitive field that promises only the equivalent of around $2/hr. Training for the job includes “‘culture training,’ in…
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Perhaps the glue of cruelty’s hold is not its “art” but its performance, its visceral slap, its full-frontal assault.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here’s your image of the week (month?). Let’s talk about Jackson Pollock’s physics, shall we? NASA understands how prescient the movie Waterworld was. Why yes, I would like to eat in your candy restaurant. Flying cars are now way more…
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The Rumpus Interview with Frederick Reiken
Frederick Reiken’s third novel, Day for Night, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, alongside Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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All Over Coffee #542
Outside the MetClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press, the second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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Your Unfinished Novel Here
My Unfinished Novels is a new website that asks the question, “Why was this novel abandoned?” If you’re holding onto 55 pages of a manuscript written in 1999 that you thought was going to be the “great American novel”—this is…
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Tweet Your Way to an MBA
How long did it take you to write your college essay? Or your grad school essay? I know I agonized for months over the perfect 500-800 words that would make admissions people fall in love with me. 140 characters is…
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On Marriage Equality
“If marriage equality launches a widespread flight to the culturally sanctioned form of partnership, have we lost a history and a field of experience that the rest of the world might well have benefited from?” —At The Boston Review, Jason…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Apparently romance novels are getting us knocked up and giving us STD’s and making us enter unhealthy relationships and the list goes on and on and on. (via) “It may not be due to any particular deficiency in the magazine,…