2011
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Now that the iPad 2 has been released, bloggers are wondering about what wasn’t included in the update. Twitter is staying away from the IPO gravy train… for now. Nintendo joins in on the “death of console video games” rhetoric.…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #2
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: “Y’all ready?” I ask the cops, clustered near the corner of Napoleon and St Charles. “Been ready,” one shoots right back at me. “Just ready to get it done.”…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all just take a moment to look at buildings in the puddles of New York. These are things people spend money on: a $350 hundred year old stick of gum. Alternatively you could just buy these Dali tarot cards.…
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Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness: A Review?
“The emphasis on craft, on procedures and techniques, is like the creation of perfectly safe nuclear reactors without acknowledging the necessity of radioactive matter for the core.”
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More on the HuffPo Strike
“Bill Lasarow, the publisher and editor of the two websites, said in an interview that the move is ‘not a hostile act in any sense whatsoever,’ but added that the writers felt ‘like they were being taken advantage of by…
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Throw Me Something, Mister:
Mardi Gras Dispatch #1Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: This is how it begins: with a lot of standing around. Some of us are drunk. Some of us are getting there, some of us are dead sober, but…
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HuffPo Strike Declared
ArtScene and Visual Art Source, “an umbrella art publishing company” who, up until yesterday, reposted content at The Huffington Post, have announced they they are going on strike. And they are calling on other content providers to do the same.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The iPad 2 announcement came today! And it’s coming in multiple colors from the get go. Google pulled over fifty programs infected with malware today. Are you infected? Here’s the full list. An excellent parody Steve Jobs Twitter account has been…
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Why I Chose Things Come On
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On as the March selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Devastation. Conflation. Preoccupation. Disintegration. Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On (Wesleyan UP) is a book…
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PEN/Faulkner Award
Rumpus contributor and author Eric Puchner has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Also in the running? Jennifer Egan (who we’ve interviewed), Brad Watson (who we’ve interviewed), Jaimy Gordon (whose book we reviewed), and Deborah Eisenberg. Congrats to all the…
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The Nagging Listeners of NPR
“I’m an NPR groupie. I listen to public radio for several hours a day—more often than I watch TV, more often than I do actual work. There’s only one thing I hate about my daily companion: my fellow listeners.” Over…