2011
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More Pale King
“[…] The Pale King treats its central subject—boredom itself—not as a texture (as in Fernando Pessoa), or a symptom (as in Thomas Mann), or an attitude (as in Bret Easton Ellis), but as the leading edge of truths we’re desperate…
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Halal Pork and Other Stories
Filled with a slew of social critiques and riffs on popular Muslim and American iconography, Cihan Kaan’s first collection of short stories, Halal Pork, is decidedly Muslim-American but also conflicted, negotiating the space between assimilation into American society and the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in anthropomorphic vegetables. . . X-rays are the best way to discover new species. Everyone knows this is true. Mummies aren’t really that scary if you consider that most of them have heart problems. The Woodpecker Book (I…
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National Poetry Month Day 5: “The Great Wave” by Barbara Jane Reyes
The Great Wave After Hokusai First, the sea took the shore. She surged and sucked up the sand and gravel, all the soil and clay. She plucked twisted trees from the earth as if they were turnips. Herons nesting in…
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The Rumpus Interview with Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb is a badass, who released her fifth collection of poetry on April 1, 2011. She is the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for her book Final Girl, which was also a Village Voice favorite book…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/4-4/11
This week in San Francisco, two opportunities to pee your pants in public at Piano Fight’s Monday Night Foreplays and stand-up with Rory Scovel at the Punchline, Red Hots Burlesque puts on a show featuring an 6-foot MC in a…
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Dear Sex Worker Hater
Hello Sex Worker Hater, So, we meet again. You’re a shape shifter and I feel like I see you everywhere I go. I’ve spotted you on police forms for recovered bodies which had two categories: human and non-human.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Will the Libyan war mean the end of .ly startups? (No, those URLs weren’t created just for twitter.) Apple controls its app system too tightly and Android’s a mess. What’s an app developer to do? AOL, the new owner of…
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This Is Very Sad
The Bay Citizen is reporting that San Francisco’s A Different Light Bookstore, “one of the few remaining LGBT bookstores in the United States,” will soon be shuttering its doors.
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How Do You Get Unblocked?
This morning Rumpus contributor Sari Botton blogged about how she’s started writing first drafts longhand in an effort to combat a two-years-long bout of writer’s block. “Part of the problem is how much I’ve come…to associate my laptop with social…