2011
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Mark Folse: The Last Book I Loved, Mystic Pig
It is a novel, not a cookbook, but my sister the full-on foodie insists that the recipes all look workable, and what could be more perfect than a story about New Orleans that incidentally teaches you how to make white…
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Georgia Bottoms
In Mark Childress’s latest novel, Georgia Bottoms, his eponymous heroine is a mash-up of Southern women from popular culture, but that is no reason not to read it.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Polish book covers hurrah huzzay. Contrary to popular belief, the Germans are very happy. S imilarly: no one actually has blue eyes. Thursdays are good days for artist books. Everyday is a good day for space volcanoes.
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Why I Chose Fall Higher
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Dean Young’s Fall Higher as the April selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
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National Poetry Month Day 7: “Jack Gilbert” by P. Scott Cunningham
Jack Gilbert Love is everything though of course, love dies leaving you in agony and then you die and worms crawl in and out of your skull.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Google employees testified today that giving private companies, as well as the government, the power to censor search results is an awful idea. Duh. What is Congress thinking? Ah, hypocrisy. Apple’s new iAd app violates its own app guidelines. Microsoft and…
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Penn State MFA
“Another significant source of budget savings officially recommended in a letter by the Core Council was to potentially eliminate fellowships to support the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at Penn State, Schulze said. The English department decided…
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MacNaughton and Standen
Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton’s latest “Meanwhile” piece, “The Bolinas Winemaker,” was originally created for Pop-Up Magazine’s Sidebar event at SFMOMA in San Francisco. The piece appeared as a slideshow accompanied by a soundtrack, which was created by über-talented KQED reporter…
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The Bolinas Winemaker
The amazing art of Wendy MacNaughton. The amazing sound recordings of Amy Standen. Video originally shown at Pop-Up Magazine.
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Coates in San Francisco
Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose interview we ran today is reading tonight at the University of San Francisco as part of their Emerging Writers Festival. The site says that readings will begin promptly at 7:30 in the Maraschi Room of Fromm Hall…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #81
YESTERDAY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing yesterday.