2011
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Writing About a Psychiatrist’s Death
“Dr. R’s is the Voice of the memoir—the voice in her head. So did writing the book end up being her way of continuing the conversation with him? ‘That was really the point,’ she says. ‘I was so scared of…
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Happy Mother’s Day! Time to diet?
Apparently, Barnes & Noble thinks your mom is fat and needs to start dieting: the company sent an e-mail to it’s subscribers with a Mother’s Day gift list and the most prominently featured book was a diet book. The book…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
A fascinating interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez. (via) File under signs of the apocalypse: The Meowmorphisis. Oscar Villalon wonders who The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature was really written for. “The Intimate Orwell.“
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. It’s been a good week.
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Self Lit: The Reading
Think of it, perhaps, as a mini-Rumpus, south Florida style, tonight at 8:00 p.m at The Projects in FAT Village. This is the literary component of the Self Lit Art Show, featuring readings by Rumpus contributors Amy Letter, Emma Trelles,…
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The Avatars of Vishnu
Via Rumpus Contributor Michael Hollander, here’s some great art and an even better story from Nina Paley about some work she did for the Brooklyn Museum. It might seem dry–she talks a lot about contracts and Creative Commons licenses–but in…
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Science Saturday
So, global warming isn’t happening? Tell that to the people who will starve because crop yields are down due to hotter temperatures. Computer scientists at the University of Texas-Austin have induced schizophrenic symptoms in a computer. I am made unreasonably…
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Saturday Morning Links
My eyes are taking some time to focus this morning, so I’m occasionally lifting my glasses and putting my nose on my laptop screen. No idea why you would need to know that. Haven’t read one of these stories in…
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Throwing Poetry at People: Rumpus Book Club Roundup
Tayari Jones, author of the Rumpus Book Club’s May pick Silver Sparrow gets love from The Village Voice: “Jones… is fast defining middle-class black Atlanta the way Cheever did Westchester.” Read an excerpt of the book on Scribd. HTML Giant…