2011
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Rumpus Women on Firedoglake Book Salon
The Rumpus Women, Vol. I contributors have been on tour. We’ve read in bookstores, bars, and family rooms in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Denver. The readings have been awe-inspiring: smart, funny, charming, sad, honest, brave. In case you couldn’t make…
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When Tar Roads Came In Barefoot Age
Les Murray seems to want to make his experiences into some kind of shared history. In fact, this blurred line between personal memory and shared history is the spine to this body of poems.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today might be a good day to check out the CIA Museum Flickr feed. When celebrity endorsements are from the past they become way more interesting. For some reason scientists want to know what it would be like to think…
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Introducing Anna Kavan
There’s an indispensable book called About Writing by Samuel R. Delany. In the first essay he cobbles together an eclectic list of authors that, ideally, the aspiring writer should read. Because Delany has read everything, you can bet his tastes…
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A Primer On Exotic Punctuation
Never heard of the ancient, wonderful and criminally under-acknowledged Pilcrow? Then go savor the musings at Shady Characters, a blog about unusual punctuation. (Via: Book Bench)
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Joining The Penny Club
“Writers love to watch their online listings. First, there’s watching the rankings that can be ginned up by a one-day spike. Then noticing, sometimes within days of being listed, used and like new copies of their books for sale by…
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Falling for Lidia
Chelsea Cain’s introduction to Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water, which is the Rumpus Book Club’s March selection: Lidia and I are in therapy together. That’s what she calls it. Technically it is more of a writing workshop, at least…