2011
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Legacy
“The Legacy of Malcolm X” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is one hell of a read. You can read our interview with Coates here.
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Marc Maron
Well this is cool: Marc Maron’s WTF podcast “has been picked up for broadcast on public radio.” You can listen to the Rumpus Radio interview with Maron here.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #39: Luuk Imhann in Conversation with a Fisherman
There’s fisherman who is famous in my town in northern Holland, near the sea. They say he has been around the world a few times, so I thought I would ask him some questions. A very short interview followed.
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The Dark Mystery of Emily Dickinson’s “Master” Letters
One of the enduring mysteries of American literature is a series of three letters drafted by Emily Dickinson to someone she called “Master.” There is no evidence that he letters—written between 1858 and 1862 and discovered shortly after Dickinson’s death…
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First Book
“When we imagine people without books, we think of villagers in places like Afghanistan. But many families in the United States have no children’s books at home. In some of the poorest areas of the country, it’s hard to find…
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Man Booker Drama
Today Philip Roth beat out a “stellar shortlist” to win the Man Booker International prize. But that’s not the drama. No, “Judge Withdraws Over Philip Roth’s Booker Win,” is the drama. That’s right, Carmen Callil has retired from the award…
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Rumpus Readings
Over at Litseen Nicole McFeely has posted videos from last month’s Rumpus and ruminates on the definition of success. Bonus? Litseen’s video pick of the week is Jim Shepard reading from the beginning of his story “Boys Town” (so good).
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Speaking of Drinky Crow
Click here to view the first appearance of Drinky Crow (Tony Millionaire’s classic character) back in 1993.
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A Book’s Face
“For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the market. For cover designers, it can also be the beginning of their own struggle…
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Romanticism
The poems in April Bernard’s Romanticism feel more complete, somehow, for the fact that they each align their focus on objects which, on multiple readings, still seem to have no particular connection other than that they’re all from Bernard.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The internet was invented so I could go through the NYPL’s gallery of scientific and medical pictures. Istanbul’s urban sprawl makes for a good picture of the day. Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of color photography. New Scientist gets you…