2011
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Zombies Meet Joy Division
More and more “serious” “literary” writers are turning to zombies, werewolves, and vampires for inspiration. This could be symptomatic of something dire or something hopeful in the world of writing. We could dither endlessly about the ramifications. But perhaps we…
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Rebecca West On Literary Criticism
“A little grave reflection shows us that our first duty is to establish a new and abusive school of criticism. . .There is merely a chorus of weak cheers, a piping note of appreciation that is not stilled unless a book is suppressed by…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #68: The Bad Things You Did
I don’t think your path to wholeness is walking backward on the trail.
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Book Thief/Poet
“In Mexico there was an incredible bookstore. It was called the Glass Bookstore and it was on the Alameda. Its walls, even the ceiling, were glass. Glass and iron beams. From the outside, it seemed an impossible place to steal…
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Online Marginalia
Reyhan Harmanci at The Bay Citizen discovers New Yorker cartoon marginalia in the magazine’s digital archives.
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Google’s Next Move
“Now that a judge has curtailed Google’s ambitions to create a giant digital bookstore and library, the company is left with few appealing options.” The Times takes a look at where the internet giant can go, now that a judge…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes when I am trying to find links I just end up reading long boring essays about Disneyland attractions and chairs, this is the life of the internet scavenger. Dear everyone: please take me out for a dinner in the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rumpus Managing Editor Isaac Fitzgerald
This last February, I pulled out the recorder, told [Isaac] to sit still, and peppered him with questions.
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Gov. LePage
Dear Paul LePage, Governor of the great state of Maine: Go fuck yourself. (Link via MeFi, sentiments purely our own.)
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The Rumpus Interview with Mike Rosenthal
While working on an interview with the Great Gatsby video game folks, this wonderfully clever Waiting for Godot game went viral on the web.