2011
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MFAs, for Better or for Worse
Creative programs are increasingly common and so are their criticisms. The difficulty with pinpointing creativity to an academic institution or justifying a trend where tuition money and literary prowess are both major contributing factors to success make MFA programs a…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #87
THE RAPTURE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rapture.
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Unhappy Stasis
The Chronicle Review published an essay on the economics of unhappiness and what it means to live in a society where economic growth is considered normal. The growth patterns of our economy have made unhappiness a baseline–we’re reflecting this need…
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Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Hermit Crabs Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
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Speakable Power
Metaphor, “a power so subtle we barely notice how much it impacts our thinking.” (via TheBookBench)
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: Welcome to the Greenhouse Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
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Notable New York, This Week 5/23-5/29
This week in New York the Indie Booksellers Choice Awards at Housing Works; Book Expo America runs all week; Emma Donohue, Room, at powerHouse; book launch parties for Vanessa Hidary, Lynne Tillman, and Vanessa Veselka; two storytelling events: Sideshow Goshko…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Have you read Slate’s fascinating (and relevant) article on what happens when doomsday prophecies fail? You totally should! 70’s Italian collage super cosmic action fun times! Victorian alert: Peter Pan in Kensington Garden and Arthur Conan Doyle tricked by fairies. Most…
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The Rumpus Interview with Noah Cicero
Noah Cicero is the author of The Human War (Fugue State Press, 2003), The Condemned (Six Gallery Press, 2006), Burning Babies (Parlor Press, 2006), Treatise (A-Head Publishing, 2008), and The Insurgent (Blatt, 2010).
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On Dog Ears
Do you dog-ear the pages of your books? Photographer Erica Baum sees dog-eared pages as more than placeholders. In her new book, Dog Ear, she photographed dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks, presenting the pages in a new light, as text…
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Writers, Time to Stand Up
“Literature isn’t a 6-year-old dyslexic girl who has to be drilled on the difference between b’s and d’s and p’s and q’s. Literature isn’t weak. It’s strong. It isn’t given. It takes. It isn’t protected. It protects… And, finally, literature…
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Doing the SlutWalk
Not to be confused with the walk of shame: SlutWalks are a rising movement to draw attention to the culture of blaming the victim in sexual assault cases. The first SlutWalk took place in Toronto, organized after this public statement…