2011
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/28-4/3
This week in San Francisco, VIDA at the Makeout Room, Poetry at the Randall Museum, the April Fool’s Lower Haight Art Walk, and the Switchboard Music Festival. Monday 3/28: Grab a bite and catch Bait & Switch tonight at Yoshi’s…
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Lesbian Sex (Haiku)
“It’s like straight sex: same regrets, insecurities, but with more laundry.” Anna Pulley’s haikus for adulthood: “How Lesbian Sex Works.”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #80
RIGHT HERE WAITING FOR YOU BY RICHARD MARX ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Right Here Waiting for You by Richard Marx.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Multi-billion dollar valuations of facebook, Groupon and others have led some to ask: Are we in the middle of another, potentially destructive tech bubble? Some foreign political activists have recently run afoul of social networking sites’ rules while documenting struggles…
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A New Rumpus Comic: Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Tiger A brilliant new Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
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“Dearest”
“I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time.” Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking last letter to her husband. (via @Weegee)
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“I Write to Live Life Twice”
Yesterday our own LaToya Jordan asked Rumpus readers “is writing therapy?” The question has sparked an excellent conversation, which is still taking place. Why not join the debate?
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Night Soul and Other Stories
The idiosyncrasy of James McElroy’s prose has been a stumbling block for his readers, but his new collection, Night Soul and Other Stories, feels true to their author, every turn of phrase artistically sincere.
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Notable New York, This Week 3/28-4/03
This week in New York Jennifer Egan at Book Court; Pitchapalooza; The Inspired Word featuring poets Samantha Thornhill and Veronica Golos, along with guitarist Valerie June; The New School Arts Festival on Noir; The Poetry Society of America brings poetry…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is a day filled with robot gulls. Here is some 60s Swedish book design for you. Similarly: Mid-Century Pharmaceuticals. On the logistics of extraterrestrial mountaineering. Also: evidently you can train lefties to think like righties. if that is something…