2011
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Internet vs. Infinite Jest
“I recommend checking out The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B White…” Folks at Yahoo Answers critique an anonymously submitted first page, not knowing that it is actually page one of Infinite Jest. (via Kotkke)
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/11-4/17
This week in San Francisco, join The Rumpus in making a ruckus (tonight!), Mortified is back! and FREE ICE CREAM. This is gonna be a good week.
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Save The Eagle
The Eagle Tavern, a decades-old San Francisco gay bar, may be shutdown on April 29th due to a dispute with its landlord. Local residents aren’t going to give up their favorite “alt, leather, punk, working class” gay bar without a…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #82
CENTIPEDES ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing centipedes.
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“In Education Your Value Depends on Other People Failing.”
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel believes that the housing bubble has been replaced by another market set to burst: higher education. (via @rachelannyes)
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“Why Bother? Why Read Poetry at All?”
NPR talks with David Orr, poetry critic for The New York Times, and posts an excerpt from his new book, Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry.
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“Yearning for Something Unknown.”
“Even if I’m poor, it’s like being rich. That’s what it is to be rich. Not having to do any shit you don’t want to do.” The Days of Yore interviews our own Stephen Elliott about his early years as…
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A Friendly Gathering in San Francisco (Tonight!)
The Rumpus and ZYZZYVA Proudly Present: “A Friendly Gathering” That’s right. On April 11th (tonigh!), 7pm at the The Make-Out Room, we’re teaming up with ZYZZYVA to throw a party featuring authors David Goodwillie, Erika Recordon, Aryn Kyle, and Matthew…
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Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Butterfly Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
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Notable New York, This Week 4/11-4/17
This week in New York The Franklin Park Reading Series; Poets Mark Doty, Kathleen Graber, and Patricia Smith at Housing Works; Sex Worker Literati at Bowery Poetry Club; Neil Gaiman at Symphony Space; Writers read from David Foster Wallace’s The…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The god who demands you make this is a god I can get behind. South Koreans have some rad ideas about bike storage innovation. What it took to get into Harvard in 1899. (via Letters of Note.) Let’s all look…
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National Poetry Month Day 11: “Sonnet to Ash Wednesday” by Noelle Kocot
Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s selection for the month of February. You can read Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s essay on why she chose the book here and you can read the Poetry Book Club’s chat with…