2011
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Has Your Letter Been Published in My Column?
A letter from Sugar: Dearest sweet peas whose letters have been published in my columns, I need your help. As many of you have suggested, I’m pursuing the possibility of publishing a book of my columns. In the course of…
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Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
The Creosote Journal has posted a write up of last Monday’s Rumpus in San Francisco (beautiful photos included).
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Meanwhile,
The San Francisco Public LibraryWendy MacNaughton illustrates the world of The San Francisco Public Library. …more
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Lion’s Club: Book Club Roundup
Woot! Adam Levin won the NY Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Award for The Instructions. Looks like Mr. Levin’s getting the drinks next time (the award comes with a $10,000 cash prize). The Book Spy blog spots Levin on the…
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My America Isn’t On a Staid Map
Rane Arroyo’s character shines through in the amazing White as Silver collection, and will be clarified continuously as his vast trove of unpublished work begins to come to light.
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Robert Stubblefield The Last Book I Loved, Honey in the Horn
Ask a group of book-loving Oregonians who their only Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction is, and what do you suppose the percentage of correct answers might be? Easier to predict would perhaps be the most frequent incorrect answer. My money…
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Wikileaks Hypocrisy?
Mediaite linked yesterday to a piece in the New Statesman which reported that Wikileaks has been pressuring members of their staff to sign what they describe as a “draconian” confidentiality agreement. They apparently got the document from former Wikileaks staffer…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
See, it WAS the cell phones. What your literary tote bag says about you (as a writer for the Rumpus and an employee of a non-Green Apple sf bookstore, this conflicts me). It is accidentally illegal to have sex in…
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The Problem with Comebacks: On the Return of The Cars
Growing up, I loved The Cars. They were probably the first band I ever called my favorite. In place of headphones, I’d sometimes just lay on the floor and put the record player speakers next to each of my ears.
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Kerouac in Florida
“Florida? Jack Kerouac lived in Florida?” For less than one year Kerouac crashed with his mother in Orlando, where he, in an “intense stretch not all that different from the one in which he composed On the Road, […] wrote…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Google has big visions and disruptive ambitions for the newest version of its cloud-based Chromebook, but the hardware gets a solid “meh” from the gadget brigade. Speaking of the gadget brigade, they’re pretty psyched about this overclocked Samsung Galaxy S…