2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
On a similar vein as yesterday: touring the abandoned New Orleans Six Flags. Um, have you guys been following this Area 51 stuff? Here are some pictures. East and West Jam Session 1957 (I want to go to there). East…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “To My Twenties” by Kenneth Koch
“Only this do you know for sure: time is an ellipsis until it is not.”
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An Interview with Character(s)
Tara Jepsen and Beth Lisick recently interviewed New Zealand folksinging/activist sensations the Topp Twins (stars of the documentary Untouchable Girls). Even better? Jepsen and Lisick conduct the entire interview as their comedic characters Carole and Mitzi, in recognition of the…
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lost e.e. cummings
“The folder contained undated letters from the poet E.E. Cummings to Thayer, early versions of a couple Cummings’ poems and one poem by Cummings I couldn’t remember ever seeing before.” A not-to-be-missed piece over at The Awl: “A Lost E.E.…
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THE LONELY VOICE #11: Eudora Welty, Total Bad Ass
Greatest American short story writer? Ever? For me, it’s not even an interesting question. Welty in a landslide.
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Mulholland Drive, the TV Show
Did you know that the film Mulholland Drive was originally going to be a television pilot for ABC? And that now, thanks to a man named Mike Dunn, you can read David Lynch’s entire script for that pilot online? Enjoy.…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Why their email services are crucial to Google, Microsoft & Yahoo. Twitter says it’ll inform you before it hands over your info to the authorities. Thanks? A bunch of major banks have teamed up to offer joint online banking services.…
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Hooray!
“Author Sam Lipsyte will produce an HBO comedy series called People City.” Exciting news from GalleyCat! Update: You can read last year’s Rumpus interview with Lipsyte, conducted by David Goodwillie, here.
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Making Amazon Pay Up
Texan John Raney, owner of Texas Aggieland Bookstore, makes an impassioned plea for the Lone Star State to start collecting sales taxes from Amazon. (via PW)
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Danya Glabau: The Last Book I Loved, In the Metro
To speak of “the other” is often to say very little nowadays. There are big-O others, little-o others, psychoanalytic others, (post)colonial others, others who punish and spy on us when we are least aware of it, others who choose their…