Color Plates
Built on a walk through a privately-owned museum, a four-chambered version of art, Color Plates is not an easily defnable book.
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2011
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The Last Book I Loved: The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace was a writer with whom I was determined, out of principle, not to fall in love.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Surely the robot apocalypse is close at hand. Five centuries of board games. In 2011 scientist can turn fly brains into art just for kicks. Perhaps you’d like to see…
Winning with Winston
I recently bought a refrigerator magnet at Whole Foods, three and a half inches square, white letters, all lowercase, on a black background. It says “never never never give up…
D.I.Y. Steve
Publishing Perspectives covers Rumpus contributor and “literary rock star” Steve Almond’s D.I.Y. success.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/7-3/13
This week in San Francisco, Quiet Lightning moves to North Beach, Janine Brito and Emily Heller get hilarious at the Punchline, Andrew Sean Greer’s The Islanders takes to the stage,…
Meanwhile, Outtakes
Rumpus contributor and artist Wendy MacNaughton has posted a couple of outtakes from her fantastic “Meanwhile, Mission Bartenders” piece. Check ’em out.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #77
THE MAZE ON THE PLACE MAT AT RORY’S DONUTS & MORE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Sweden is replacing stamps with text messages. Too much tech use is ruining your sleep. Google controls 97% of mobile search. An amazing and terrifying tour of cutting-edge augmented reality…
C Clark: The Last Book I Loved, The Death of Artemio Cruz
A novel written in 1962 found its way into my hands for the first time during the summer of 1997. The Death of Artemio Cruz, written by Carlos Fuentes, was…
Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #4
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: If there’s one lesson we know well here in New Orleans, it’s that none of us are immune to…