2011
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National Poetry Month, Day 26: “In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse” by Alison Pelegrin
In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse 504 forever. Hillbilly princess. FDNY. For a good time a hard man is good to find. Got nookie? Life is too short for bad moonshine.
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Muse
After I’d been working on my second novel, Skinny, for three years, and by “working on,” I mean writing aimlessly like Jack in The Shining, a friend of mine requested a favor. He’d been cat-sitting, a job that would last…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
WikiLeaks is at it again, releasing documents on Guantanamo Bay prisoners to reporters over the weekend. If you like video games, get ready for the next generation Nintendo Wii, set to be released in 2012. Tablet gadget porn: Acer’s Iconia…
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First Chapter in the Sun
You can read the first chapter of John Sayles’ new book, A Moment in the Sun (McSweeney’s, 2011), here.
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Welcome to the Ten-In-One
WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE: The One Ton Honey Lisa Brown continues her incredible Rumpus Comic series: “Welcome to the Ten-In-One.”
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In Support of the Memoir
Dinty W. Moore’s rebuttal to Lorrie Moore’s essay in the New York Review of Books, in support of memoir-writing defends the genre and points out the absurdities in Moore’s adamant dismissal. Memoirs and their questionable reliability have been the source…
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“In Praise of The Rumpus Book Club”
“… the Rumpus Book Club is filled with extraordinarily adventurous, well-read, thoughtful omnivores of the literary variety. Everyone who loves to read should find themselves a group like this. I feel like I’ve become a better reader because of my…
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How I Learned It’s Not Me, It’s You (Or Maybe It’s Me) Reading
Hey New Yorkers and Those Willing to Commute, What are you doing Wednesday night? This. Do this. This Wednesday, April 27 from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist will be reading with Sam Lipsyte (The Ask; Home Land),…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #84
WOODY WOODPECKER ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Woody Woodpecker.
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Vancouver’s Bold War on Drugs
For many years Vancouver has had a serious heroin addiction. So it’s heartening to see that one of the city’s boldest strategies for confronting the problem, launched eight years ago, is continuing to meet with serious success: Vancouver’s government-backed “supervised…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 4/25-5/01
This week in San Francisco: Million Fishes fixes Monday by bringing you women, come celebrate Paul Madonna’s new book with ALL of us and Happy May Day you weirdos.
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Mackenzie Brady: The Last Book I Loved, Tiger, Tiger
I’m not one for New Years resolutions, but after a year of missing meals and several dates–all in the name of work sweet work–I decided that this year I would devote more time to pleasure reading. That is not to…