2011
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The Rumpus interview with Jóhann Jóhannsson
The Icelandic musician and composer Jóhann Jóhannsson specializes in disparate, subtly moving themes and careful musings on the ways in which industry and society intersect.
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Tahereh Mafi Interview
Jacket Copy spoke with Tahereh Mafi about Shatter Me, the first book in her young-adult trilogy. Mafi discusses how the idea for the main character’s “girl-with-the-lethal-touch” idea arose and whether there are similarities between the character and herself: “She kills…
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The Flame an Upright Leaf
Grappling with the problems of an adolescent entering adulthood in a society skewed by violence and oppression, Adam Foulds’ narrative poem is an intellectual, visual, and sensual triumph.
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Dream City
Salon kicked off a new column called Dream City with an exploration of how “cities of the future” are being designed. “…The inescapable truth is that the new urban reality we’ve created — the one with spiffed-up boulevards and cutting-edge…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: In Our Rooms
Atlas Sound Parallax (4AD) I am not particularly attuned to my cultural moment when I listen to Bradford Cox’s music.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The internet is here to keep you warm. Ravens communicate through gestures (probably about how to kill us all). Here is some Yugoslavian science-fiction illustration for you. The future is looking very mossy. Way to change the evolutionary patterns of…
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Libraries as Incubator
The recently launched Libraries as Incubator Project seeks to broaden the public’s notion of libraries “by celebrating the ways that they nurture arts communities around the country.” Check out the LIP website, which features “the work of artists who have…
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On Ann Beattie
“Beattie is an artist of silence, of the things we don’t say or can’t, the things that find expression anyway. She is an artist of the space between the words—of commas and dashes and periods; of section breaks, blank spaces…
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Personal Paper Prying
At HTML Giant, Roxane Gay ponders our insatiable curiosity about the personal papers of famous writers, reflecting on the value of preservation versus privacy. “Somewhere, there exists a random note written on a napkin by a writer who is not…
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Muppet Lessons
Breaking down the resolutions of three specific conflicts over the course of the “Classic Muppet years,” this article reveals examples for anyone attempting to preserve their art while also making money. “…The lesson to take away from Henson’s management style…
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Female Detectives Then and Now
This Q&A with crime writer Denise Mina touches on office politics, rude women, and the evolution of the female detective. “Now you’ve reached the point where a woman is just a different type of detective. You’re not getting information just…