2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
All of these things are about outer space. The space race was totally intense. Maybe this is a good time to talk about space junk. I don’t know if you guys knew this, but there is something called the Serpent…
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All Over Coffee
Out of the Grapevine… All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. On April 29th, the second and newest book, Everything is its own reward,…
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The Rest of the Story: The Rumpus Interview with Chris Tarry
I met Chris Tarry on the Thursday of AWP, on the mobbed second floor of a popular blues bar in Adams Morgan, after a friend and I had been gonged out of a literary talent show by Pam Houston.
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Here’s Some Animations I Like
Meg Pokrass is doing something kind of brilliant. She’s making animated short shorts using that text-to-movie software that’s generally used for those “So You Want To…” animations (i.e. So You Want To Write A Novel, So You Want To Get…
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Practice SelfControl
Instead of writing poetry or posts for The Rumpus, I was checking Facebook, e-mail, some message boards I belong to, and then refreshing Facebook again, and again. Perhaps if I downloaded this SelfControl app, I’d be a more productive person:…
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Japan’s libraries
Continuing with the library theme, from the most beautiful to what happens when libraries die, here are some images from earthquake-damaged libraries in Japan. (Link is translated by Google). (via The Book Bench)
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An App To Cure The Gay
Apple has approved an iPhone app that encourages LGBT people to take part in “conversion therapy,” a practice that has been scientifically disproved and that can be quite dangerous to LGBT people, particularly young LGBT people, who are at high…
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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE:
The Fire EaterWhat is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics, one for each act. An extraordinary collection of freakish curiosities.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
““You’re just lucky,” she joked, “that it didn’t send your copy of Best Torture Clubs of the Northeast or How to Care for your Rubber Masks.”” — There appear to be some glitches in e-book lending. Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Here’s what we’ve been up to this past week.
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The News from Libya
A coalition including the US, France, the UK, and Italy has begun air and missile strikes in Libya. President Obama authorized limited military action by US forces, but also said that the US will not send ground troops in. Secretary…