2011
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Bill Cunningham
Bill Cunningham, longtime fashion photographer at The New York Times, is the subject of a new documentary, Bill Cunningham New York, and what an enchanting film it is.
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WHERE I WRITE #7: Between Clients
I write between clients. There’s a yellow wall behind me, and fuzzy leopard print pillows on the floor.
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Tao Lin’s Crystal Ball
“A certain literary discourse, about what others should or shouldn’t be doing with their art, will probably always exist as a distraction from writing novels.” Tao Lin has written an essay called “Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer…
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: There Is No Year Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
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‘Nuff Said
“Werner Herzog and Cormac McCarthy talk science and culture.” There’s really nothing else to say. Go here to listen. (via @jamesyeh)
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Go Hug a Tree
“Denis Hayes coordinated the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, when 20 million people took to the streets and kicked off the environmental movement.” Today’s probably a good day to revisit our interview with Denis Hayes.
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Disorientation, Disgust, and Killing flies
Michael Dickman’s poems inhabit a place in which “morning makes its way up the street as a loose pack of wild dogs” and we find ourselves—through his sharp pronoun use—feeling complicit in acts of violence that are committed in a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Important: meet the coolest dude who ever lived. Friday is a good day to watch the old Model T assembly line in action. Old pictures of LA are some of my most favorite things. Mobile home as art piece. Can…
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National Poetry Month, Day 22: “Long (dragon)” by Peggy Hamilton
Long (dragon) Once skin teaches you body’s not to feel with it grows to solve other problems fires get tired of burning every bed they’ve been in down ashes look so soft but you would never spend the night anyhow
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The Rumpus Interview with Aimee Bender
I just think it has become clearer to me that writing is making a vessel to send to a reader.
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How USA Today Tiptoed Away From the GE Tax Hoax
Last Wednesday, USA Today editor Doug Stanglin reported about the Associated Press’s hugely embarrassing misfire-of-a-story on General Electric. In a blog post headlined “AP falls for prank report that GE is giving back a $3.2B tax refund,” Stanglin quoted from…