2011
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Other People We Reviewed
Don’t miss Bracha Goykadosh’s review of Emma Straub’s Other People We Married in the Rumpus Books section.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
First Amazon took on Netflix with streaming movies, and now it’s going after the Android store with its new Appstore. Oh, and Apple is suing over the name. There are more questions than answers when it comes to the newly…
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Which Bay Area Reading Event Is Right For You?
Rumpus contributor Evan Karp and Rumpus Comics artist Susie Cagle have joined forces to create “The Bay Citizen’s Guide to San Francisco’s Literary Readings,” a very fun choose-your-own-adventure-style app that will help you select which Bay Area lit event is…
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Readers Report Back From… The Gift
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The Gift.” Edited by Susan Clements:
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Book Club Member Josh Anastasia on Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch opens with a sad, heart-wrenching story of a stillborn baby.
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Goodreads
Quill & Quire talks with Patrick Brown, community manager of the popular social book reviewing site Goodreads. (via PW)
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Other People We Married
Emma Straub’s debut collection of stories, Other People We Married, is full of quirky, thoughtful, resonating characters and has earned her comparisons with Lorrie Moore.
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The Last Books I Loved: After Man and Man After Man
A couple of the more exciting book stumbles I’ve enjoyed recently are Geologist Dougal Dixon’s “zoology of the future,” After Man (1981), and its “anthropology of the future” sequel, Man After Man (1990). After Man is a credible paleontology/speculative fiction…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We are glad to report that the Yakuza is doing their part. I’ll be honest with you, I rarely know what is going on at But Does It Float, but I do understand Spanish graphic design. Scientists: you are not…