2011
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New Murakami
“The long-awaited English translation of 1Q84, the writer’s epic novel in three volumes that has proved a huge hit in his native Japan, will be published in English in October. All three sections are to appear together in a single…
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Being Sontag’s Assistant
“Then the book was finished, or at least a completed manuscript was turned in—as I was to learn, for Susan, the book is never finished. We spent a week holed up in her apartment combing through the galleys and then…
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AWP Bingo
Ready to rage against the “military industrial creative writing complex” at AWP? Then have your bingo cards handy. Sidenote: The Rumpus will be at AWP. Table I18. Come say hi!
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Music Man Murray
Friend of the Rumpus Richard Parks is Kickstarting a documentary short about “Music Man” Murray Gershenz, LA’s premier rare-vinyl dealer. He’s put his entire collection up for sale at $500,000 — much of it is literally priceless, but he originally…
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Charlotte Freeman: The Last Book I Loved, The Death of the Heart
Was it the last book I loved, or just one of the ones I come back to again and again, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart? This winter, once again, it was necessary somehow to go back to this…
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The Fates Will Find Their Way
“It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who’d left us behind.”
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Egyptian Morning
How Not to Say Stupid Stuff about Egypt. Emily Hauser writes with great feeling and depth about why, as an Israeli, she’s invested in the Egyptian revolution. Al Jazeera provides a timeline of events so far. Some details on the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
in 2011 violinists can duet with radioactive particles. Department of tiny things: look at these little fire escapes. Cabinet Magazine on how to make anything signify anything else. Also, waste incinerator as laser shooting ski ramp. Flavorwire rounds up famous…