2011
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More Pacazo
“It’s a shaggy-dog tale, one that eventually—boldly—invites comparison to its great progenitor, Don Quixote. In cutting a classic wide swath, Pacazo exposes itself to risk, a tricky balance between hilarity and horror. By and large, though, this rangy novel earns…
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No More Paper Cuts
The New York Times‘ books blog, Paper Cuts, is becoming a part of the paper’s more general culture blog, ArtsBeat. (via PW)
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Arlene McKanic: The Last (Poetry) Book I Loved, Snapshots from Istanbul
First of all, I have no idea how to review a book of poetry. Not formally anyway, because I don’t know the difference between an iambic pentameter or a dithyramb. I don’t know how to scan. I don’t know what…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Are you at AWP? Here are some helpful tips. (Psst! Rumor has it the Rumpus is at table I18. Come say hi!) “Invasion of the crazy incestuous ants[!]” “Musical subway map.” (Not to be mistaken with “Subway Map: The Musical.”)…
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The Rumpus Unreview: Known and Unknown, by Donald Rumsfeld
An 800-page memoir from the former Secretary of Defense tells an old, familiar story—so familiar that our reviewer didn’t even have to read it.
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SPOTLIGHT SERIES:
James JajacSilver Hell is the work of James Jajac, which he sums up as being “the process of self-destructing and the gradual process of rebuilding your life.”
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The Google-Bing battle over copied search results gets raucous. And now Microsoft’s calling out Google on… web video formats. Yawn. The US government is still seizing file-sharing domains. The iPhone on Verizon can be pre-ordered tomorrow. The Internet is about to…
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San Francisco’s History Wiki
“FoundSF is a wiki that invites history buffs, community leaders, and San Francisco citizens of all kinds to share their unique stories, images, and videos from past and present. There are over 1,800 articles here presenting primary sources, essays, and…
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Books For Black History Month
The Baltimore Sun suggests some great new titles for Black History Month. (via: Book Bench)
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Zizek on Egypt and Tunisia
“The inevitable conclusion to be drawn is that the rise of radical Islamism was always the other side of the disappearance of the secular left in Muslim countries. “When Afghanistan is portrayed as the utmost Islamic fundamentalist country, who still…
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Lovely Faces
“Welcome to the only dating site that lists real people, sincerely posting their real data and picture. You’ll feel comfortable watching them. Just like in Facebook.” To construct Lovely Faces, the third column in their phenomenal Hacking Monopolism Trilogy, which…