2011
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Sullivan ♥s Fischer
Andrew Sullivan gives some love to our own Seth Fischer’s musings on “why politicians write bad novels.” If you missed it, you can read Seth’s great post here. And thanks Andrew, we ♥ you back!
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Katy Bowman: The Last Book I Loved, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The last book that I loved was Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I have tried for the better part of three days to figure out how to write this review/adoration. I wanted to write some grand theory or expound on some deep…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/18-4/24
This week in New York, The Poetry Society of America takes on Irish and American poetry, Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club, Rumpus Books Editor Andrew Foster Altschul reads with poet Nick Flynn at powerHouse Arena, spend Earth…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad news dudes, medicine doesn’t work in space. All your T.S. Eliot picture needs. Russian underwater creatures are even cooler Water towers of Ireland. (Because, really, why not?) Anthropomorphic koalas and endless pie.
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National Poetry Month, Day 18: “Transparent to Visible Light” by Samiya Bashir
Transparent to Visible Light Across the seas, and then across the seas, an aircraft carried full and whole a world: as far apart as their fair hostess could achieve sat mother and father and their little girl who sucked a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jim Woodring
Cartoonist Jim Woodring is the creator of the surreal landscape starring characters Frank, Manhog and Pupshaw. Judging from Jim’s prolific blog, he shouldn’t have time for anything other than drawing.
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All Over Coffee #356
Pictures of YouClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. On April 29th, the second and newest book, Everything…
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Short Stories About Oil
“…it’s all around us, seeps into everything we do, but we don’t see it, we can’t see it, because it’s simply everywhere. It powers us into work, takes us on holiday, lights up our homes and cools down our food.…
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Why We Love Shakespeare
“In all of his plays, sonnets and narrative poems, Shakespeare used 17,677 words. Of these, he invented approximately 1,700, or nearly 10 percent. Shakespeare did this by changing the part of speech of words, adding prefixes and suffixes, connecting words…
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Rock Albums as Books
This is awesome: Christophe Gowans, a graphic designer from London, wondered what it would be like if some of his favorite albums were actual books. He designed book covers and even digitally aged them to be more authentic. Have you…