2011
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Historians Blog Too
“The point is that while we cherish open-ness or dialogue, we relish our closed structures and cordoned-off and privileged hallways. Academic blogging, to this graduate student, was a way out of this clubbiness.” Bookslut’s interview with historian Manan Ahmed praises…
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Atlantic ♥
Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates calls Alex Gallo-Brown’s recent “Where I Write” essay “awesome sauce.” Thanks Coates, we love you back! Update: You can read our interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates here.
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Come Again: Harmony Holiday’s Negro League Baseball
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Gabrielle Calvocoressi on why she chose Harmony Holiday’s Negro League Baseball as the June selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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Teens, Malls, Petty Crime
John Brandon, author of Arkansas and Citrus County, reminisces about the petty crime/literary conquests of his adolescence at The Millions. After his teenage athleticism burned out, he funneled his energy into consuming and stealing books from the Gulf View Square…
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Inspecting the Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Monday, we linked to Andrew Altschul’s essay on DFW’s story “The Suffering Channel.” The piece is part of The Quarterly Conversation‘s “symposium on David Foster Wallace,” a collection of in-depth analysis of Wallace’s works, thoughts, and beliefs: Scott Esposito explains…
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Preserving Books
The Internet Archive is now setting its sights on physical space, aiming to preserve one copy of every book, record and movie they obtain. As Google Books makes it increasingly easier to discount the importance of physical books (and the…
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Small Potatoes
SMALL POTATOES: Lucky Mountain An amazing Rumpus Comic (that everyone, but especially every artist and writer, should read) by Paul Madonna.
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XXX Jane Austen
First came Pride and Prejudice, then came the zombies, and now comes the sex. Erotica author Mitzi Szereto has written Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, that features “the entire cast of characters from Austen’s classic is here, caught with their…
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When the Stonecutter’s Work is Done
Be warned: Char demands much from his reader. His poetry seems to exist in a limbo, where emotion and intellect meet with startling results. His labyrinthine vision leads the reader into a universe where everything seems transformed.
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How to Drink Like Hemingway
“The only time Hemingway cried over alcohol: When Congress made it illegal during Prohibition. But he pulled himself together, as a man does always, and traveled to Paris, as a man does seldom. There Papa committed to a life of…