2011
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You’re Missing Out
“The vast majority of the world’s books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It’s just numbers.” Linda Holmes muses on “the sad, beautiful fact that we’re all going to miss almost everything.”
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Memories of Pittsburgh
Matthew Gallaway, “a Pittsburgher in exile,” explains why he wrote The Metropolis Case, “set partially in Pittsburgh, […] largely from memory.”
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Do you Treme?
We do our best to stay away from pop-culture here at The Rumpus, but book club member and contributor Ray Shea writes for a pretty rad Treme-focused blog, Back of Town. Season two starts this Sunday, better start gearing up.…
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The Erotic Allegorical Fiction of Saddam Hussein (And More!)
Last week Seth Fischer wrote about the poor prose of politicians. Well it seems Foreign Policy has found the worst sub-genre of that form: the writing of dictators.
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The Heroic Lie: A Brief Inquiry into the Fake Memoir
When I was about ten years old, I hit my older brother in the mouth with a baseball bat. We were standing around in a field, hitting pebbles with the bat, and I got him on my backswing. There was…
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James Agee
“The truth is that we would not think of Agee as a failure if he did not insist on it himself.” The New Republic has posted an essay by John Updike about James Agee, first published in 1962. (via TheBookBench)
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There’s Coffee On My Shirt, Not Blood
Seemingly masked in the two words of the title (Ghost this, Machine that), Ben Mirov has written an intimate, if cryptic, book of poetry.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
See, I told you the answer was sugar. There are people who’s job it is to figure out what colors trees could be on planets with multiple suns. A look at the first fantasy magazine ever. Admittedly, this is pretty…
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National Poetry Month, Day 20: “Not light’s version” by Michael Klein
Not light’s version A child from the past: We always knew the world would crack open like this, in our lifetime.