2011
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All Over Coffee
All Over Coffee #535 Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan Another gorgeous Rumpus Comic from Paul Madonna.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #86
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Marina and the Diamonds.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 5/16-5/22
This week in San Francisco, Shakespeare gets shaken up a bit for “The Boar’s Head“, grab your skates for a Furry Skate Disco Party and the Portuguese Artists Colony gets Vertigo.
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Tourist Information
Nothin wounded goes uphill… It just don’t happen. I got stuck rereading that sentence on the plane for a long time.
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All Over Coffee #535
Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, JapanClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press, the second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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T. Jones on TNB
“It’s funny—when it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. For fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.” Tayari Jones, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection Silver Sparrow, chats with…
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Erin Dorsey: The Last Book I Loved, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was exceedingly more interesting than I’d expected. My only knowledge of the story was that Dr. Jekyll drinks a potion and turns into a monster, who calls himself Mr. Hyde. I’d actually had the two…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/16-5/22
This week in New York Danzy Senna at BookCourt, Europa turns out its 100th book; I Am Turning Into My Mother six-word stories at 92YTribeca; Steamboat literary comedy series at Greenlight; Tayari Jones reads from Silver Sparrow at Girls Write…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
When I go, I want to go on a euthanasia-coaster. A look at the history of Science Fiction. Icons Zootomicae. Admit it, you want to look at 1960s Paris fashion. What did you do when YOU were nine? (Probably not…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Bachelder
Novelist Chris Bachedler discusses crafting his latest book, Abbott Awaits, about a self-conscious professor.
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Doll Fascination
File these two under “a freaky campaign to get adults to play with dolls”: Did you know that Barbie likes director David Lynch’s organic coffee? Or that your favorite doll could be turned into a wine glass?