2011
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Poet Mystery
Nearly 38 years after his death some people, including a Chilean judge who has opened an official investigation, are wondering: “Was Nobel prizewinning poet Pablo Neruda poisoned?”
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“Freewheeling Essays, to Be Consumed With a Cocktail”
“The excellent thing about Between Parentheses is how thoroughly it dispels any incense or stale reverence in the air. It’s a loud, greasy, unkempt thing.” Dwight Garner at The New York Times reviews Between Parentheses, a collection of Roberto Bolaño’s…
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Life on Sandpaper
Yoram Kaniuk’s autobiographical novel Life on Sandpaper follows the Israeli writer through his galavanting in 1950s Greenwich Village.
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James Franco Does His THING
If you don’t know by now, THE THING is an object-based quarterly, created by artists Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, where different artists create an object that incorporates text. All of the designs are objects you can use.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How did I miss NASA’s new deep-space vehicle? On the dark art of Heavy Metal umlauts. (via @SandiV.) The Venice Biennale has the best ATMs in the world. Hollywood’s gunslinging craze, 1956.
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Where I Write #10: Nowhere, Everywhere
Most often, I don’t. I watch basketball instead. I check my e-mail. I cook dinner and make love to my girlfriend and read magazine articles about the financial crisis. I move constantly, from Brooklyn, New York, to the Pacific coast…
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Eating Your “Cultural Vegetables”
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott evaluate what is boring and why, in the context of film. They discuss the films that are deemed boring because they don’t distract enough from the passing of time and the ones that incite a…
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“Thoughts on ‘The Suffering Channel,’ Reality, and Shit”
An essay by Andrew Altschul, the Books editor here at The Rumpus, examines the David Foster Wallace story “The Suffering Channel,” ruminating on art versus shit, shit as art, the effects of reality television on personal insignificance and authenticity, and the…