2011
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The Windmills of Old New Amsterdam
Fourth Avenue in Manhattan deserves an epitaph, bookseller Walter Goldwater told The New York Times in 1981, for a story about the neighborhood that was then still known as Book Row. “As a book center, the street is gone,” he…
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Women and Criticism
The always reputable Bookslut delivers a 23 point essay about women and criticism by Alizah Salario She checks in on Black Swan, The New Yorker, Franzenfreude and even our own Stephen Elliot’s thoughts on women in publishing.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Behold the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator. (via Gerry Canavan.) Sheep: not nearly as dumb as THE MAN would have you think. Good news for Catholics on the go: the church has endorsed the official confession booth iPhone app. Also, here…
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The Rumpus Poetry Club Interviews Kirsten Kaschock
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kirsten Kaschock about her book A Beautiful Name for a Girl. This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Kirsten Kaschock. Every month The Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts…
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New Sobule
Rumpus pal Jill Sobule and John Doe (of X fame) have released an EP on the interwebs: A Day at the Pass. You can download a free song, as well as purchase the album, here. And don’t forget to check…
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Brian Dettmer: Book Surgeon
Artist Brian Dettmer cuts into books with surgical tools, creating new pictures and interpretations from the preexisting pages. By highlighting the weight and depth of physical books, he draws attention to those aspects which can’t be replicated with e-readers. Without adding…
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Corinne May Botz’s Haunted Houses
In the preface to Haunted Houses, photographer Corinne May Botz writes about seeing the ghosts of gypsies as a child: “I lay in bed stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking.”
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Pacazo. A Love Story.
Rumpus Book Club member Claudine Asbagh reviews the club’s January pick, Roy Kesey’s Pacazo: In his first novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey takes an idea that could have been fodder for a mediocre mystery – a man searching for the truth…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Smartphones just outsold PCs for the first time. Even Bill Gates doesn’t want Microsoft stock. In the Twitter/facebook age, optimizing your site for search engines is like buying the best VCR on the market. The hivemind is upon us: Robots…
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Dan Moreau: The Last Book I Loved, Dogwalker
I bought Dogwalker on June, 27, 2004 at 10:04 p.m. for $3.98. The cashier’s name was Eric, but I don’t remember him. I know this because, for some reason — I was probably using it as a bookmark — I kept the receipt.