Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us now take a look at the Bank of Moscow(why? why not?). Good news everyone, the timer on the Wiimote is more accurate than a stopwatch. The influence of…
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A Conversation with a Soldier
Note: All names have been changed. Major Mark Ross is currently home from Iraq. He has had two tours of duty and will redeploy in a year. He knows he…
Zadie Smith On Novel Writing
“Fiction needs intellect, but it can’t survive on intellect alone. . .It has to arrive at the other embarrassing things, things that seem too banal to talk about in like…
Paris Review Spring Issue
Paris Review announces it’s Spring Issue which will include the first part of a serialized novel by Bolaño!
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Google or Facebook might buy Twitter? Obama’s plan to expand wireless access. A bizarre and riveting tale of how one man claimed to figure out the members of the Anonymous…
On Prose, Pararadoxes and Proofs
“But even from the inside of a human life, it’s possible to see when you’ve made a baby seal out of thin air, and someone is coming along to bash…
Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
Before the fiasco of the “rock musical” Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Julie Taymor worked in smaller savageries, especially Titus (1999), her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. The movie was…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
Gabi on the Roof in July (in San Francisco)
Tonight is the final screening of Gabi on the Roof in July at the San Francisco Indiefest. If you’ve seen Tiny Furniture, you’ll appreciate that both movies feature hipster hamster’s…