2011
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Antonia Crane at RADAR
Rumpus contributor and wordsmith extraordinaire, Antonia Crane will be at tomorrow’s RADAR reading series event. She will be featured during The Hot Probs segment, in which she will alleviate all of your qualms and life problems with her best advice.…
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Think Before You Ask
“So when’s your next book coming out?” and other questions you should never ask at a bookstore reading. (via @The_Millions)
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Fierce, Feminist Beats
Austra Feel It Break (Domino Records) Not long ago synthpop was something of a boys’ club. The genre’s early days were dominated by male-fronted bands like Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and The Pet Shop Boys.
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The Last Book I Loved: Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
I am shitting my pants. Totally. Completely. And … well, figuratively. One night before my travel partner and I are scheduled to fly to Mumbai, she ditches me for Berlin. The city, not the band. So I am alone in Ethiopia,…
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Bright Before Us
In Katie Arnold-Ratliff’s debut novel, Bright Before Us, we watch our unlikeable but sympathetic narrator Francis Mason tumble into responsibility and adulthood.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in old books: The Cabinet of Curiosity and The Key of Hell (!!!!) When people hold underwater photography contests, everyone wins. Did someone say space boat? Japan sure does like baby robots. Human-powered helicopters are pretty neat too.
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Does Sad Sell?
There has been much discussion lately about an “onslaught” of grief memoirs. Perhaps I’m missing something, but I don’t see how 5 books, (including new works by Joyce Carol Oates, Meghan O’Rourke, and Francisco Goldman), in the course of the…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Fuzzy Auteur
Banjo or Freakout Banjo or Freakout (Rare Book Room Records) Considering how well produced Banjo or Freakout’s self-titled debut is, one assumes auteur Alessio Natalizia must’ve buried the vocals in the mix because sound trumps sensibility.
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Rob Kimmel
“The Rumpus is literary without being pretentious, perverse without being degrading, serious without ever being boring. And I’m always happy to create illustrations for their paper-less pages.” Rob Kimmel, whose art appears in today’s “Readers Report Back From…,” has posted…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
In money matters, Gilt Groupe is the newest startup to secure a serious pot of investment funding – $138 million of funding, to be precise – and LinkedIn expects to make over $146 million on its upcoming IPO. The new New…
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Robert Loomis
“Things were smaller. They were simpler. The money was not as great. But it seems as though it was more fun.” Robert Loomis, who “began working at Random House 54 years ago” and is almost 85 years old, has decided…