2011
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Magazine Review #5: Canteen, Issue Six
Issue six of Canteen is gorgeous—clean and modern, lots of white space, square format, luscious paper, a beautiful illustration by Rod Hunting on the cover, more like an art book than a magazine—and because of this, the stakes for good…
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British Prisoners Take Poetry Seriously
I don’t know what I love most about this story from Britain. British prisoners are outraged because a fellow prisoner won second prize in a poetry contest by entering a Philip Larkin poem as his own. The prisoners are mad,…
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Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Moth Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
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Notable New York, This Week 4/04-4/10
This week in New York a book party for Jim Shepard (with beer); a reading from the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature winner and finalists; actors perform short stories from Etgar Keret and Jonathan Safran Foer at…
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The Bee-Loud Glade
Steve Himmer’s The Bee-Loud Glade is a rubber-band, stretching from nature to virtual reality and back.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news: there are more pictures from Mercury. Behold the stupid orchestra. Maybe I am missing something, but why do you need a wind turbine to be solar powered? I love illegal architecture, do you?
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The Rumpus Interview with Melora Creager
As the lead singer of the cello-based band Rasputina, Melora Creager was an intimidating interview subject because I thought she might be a witch.
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National Poetry Month Day 4: “For the City that Nearly Broke Me” by Reginald Dwayne Betts
For the City that Nearly Broke Me Listen for echoes. Now bury what you lost in the wind’s silence.
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Here’s Some Stories I Like
Here are links to some really fun and weird very short stories you can read in just a minute. Enjoy! “The witch knows spells but won’t use them. It is more along the lines of witchy ethics to stand by…
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100 Years Ago at The New York Times Magazine
“Reading articles 100 years after they were published means that the topics are often surprisingly relevant. For example, when today’s media was talking about the 2010 census, I posted a Times Magazine article about how the 1910 census was counted…
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Book Reports on Christianity
Houston Judge John Clinton thought it would be a good idea to replace community service with book reports. Nine defendants were sentenced to reading a book of the judge’s choice and reporting back to court in a month to talk to him about it.…
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The Dictionary Of Slang
“(T)he first recorded use of “bad shag” dates to 1788, that to “beat skin”* (1944) doesn’t mean what you think, you pervert, and that the term “dude” was once (1883) considered so offensive that “a vigorous Bloomington woman cowhided a…