2011
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Notable New York, This Week 1/24-1/30
This week in New York Reginald Dwayne Betts at louderARTS, the Saul Bellow Slam, Edwidge Danticat on Haiti Noir with actors Anika Noni Rose and Stephen Lang at Symphony Space, Literary Death Match is giving away Shya Scanlon’s Forecast, musicians…
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I Felt a Need to Touch Someone
An aspiring writer’s memoir of September 11 focuses on the strangeness of life in New York City before and after the attack.
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DAn Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Thomas Edison had some thoughts on 2011 too. Victorian infographics! Headline of the day: Undercover policeman married activist he was sent to spy on. Mitch Dobrowner takes pictures of storms. They are good. Cool. This week in apocalyptic signs: we…
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Nick Flynn
Flynn and I discussed his approach to writing the memoirs—as well as the advantages of having Protestant parents—over coffee in the West Village.
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Here’s Some Stories I Like
Good news! I’m back to doing this list of very short stories after a bit of a hiatus. As usual, below are some fun and weird ones that only take a minute to read but will make your day better.…
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Saddest Books in the World
GalleyCat is asking readers to name the saddest books in the world. The saddest books I’ve read are so far are Bridge to Terabithia, Fall on Your Knees, The Lovely Bones, and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I’ve read more, but…
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Junot Diaz on the Pulitzer
“If Pulitzer prize-winner and Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz is to be believed, winning the award in 2008 for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, meant little more than a short-lived applause. ‘In America, people don’t like to read. But…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
If you haven’t been reading our reviews, it’d be a good week to catch up.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
A Julian Assange coloring book, via Galleycat. Maud Newton and Alex Chee “on creating the feeling you want the reader to feel.” Four ways of dealing with religion in science fiction. This hashtag #followreader started by @charabbott is killing the…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
You don’t have to wait until AWP to get a copy of my book. The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chat with Kirsten Kaschock will be on Monday January 31 at 9:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. PST. Save the date. Jessie…
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Against Mixology
I’m with Sarah Deming on this–I hate mixologists. Fortunately, they probably hate me too, assuming they acknowledge my existence at all, because I’m one of those muddle-palated creatures who prefers the taste of liquor to just about anything it can…
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Science Saturday
Want a mammoth ride? Give it four years, apparently. Want to really learn a subject? Write about it. (Now, is there any way we writing teachers can use this information to get ourselves a raise?) Naomi Klein on our addiction…