2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Get out of the way grandpa spider! Phone-call cartography is a pretty neat way to think about things. Pigeons understand that you hate them (personally). Sometimes we all want to ride the birthday fish. Let’s all look inside a tarantula.
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The Rumpus Interview with Steve Rosenthal on Remastering Mickey Newbury
Kris Kristofferson cited him as a major influence. Elvis Presley often sang a song of his, “An American Trilogy,” to end his shows. To date, Mickey Newbury is the only songwriter to have three No. 1 songs and one No.…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/04-7/10
This week in New York, Sapphire reads from her new book, The Kid; Kick Assonance poetry reading; Tayari Jones reads from Silver Sparrow; The Center for Fiction reading of No Rest for the Dead; the Akashic All-Stars party at Greenlight…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’re going to be keeping it quiet around these parts today. Happy Fourth of July dudes.
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Wilson/Huggins: Kissing America’s Heart
Last month I announced my candidacy for Office of the President of the United States of America.
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Dan Savage (and readers) on Monogamy
If you’re anything like me, after you’ve finished reading an article, you head straight for the comments section to see what your fellow human beings have to say. I recently spent a chunk of my afternoon reading a seven-page article…
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You Can’t Read Everything
“I had gone through and thought about the number of books you could conceivably read in a year, for example. And then if you extrapolate it out over your lifetime, how many can you reasonably read? And it got me…
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Not Working
I stumbled across this project via A Public Space today called Not Working, a project intended to capture America during The Great Recession in the same way Studs Terkel did in his 1972 book Working. DW Gibson, the creator of…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“What the independent provides is personal contact and the community connection, and that is a cultural legacy that is important to maintain and inspire as our – inspire our future.” — Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis on how to succeed…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Rumpus Books had one hell of a week this week, and today’s a good day as any to catch up.
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More on PTSD
This past Monday, we linked to a piece in Good by friend of The Rumpus Mac McClelland that detailed her struggle with PTSD and her use of violent sex to help ease it. On Friday, Jezebel posted an open letter…