2011
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A Struggle at the Roots of the Mind
I don’t know if I’m the only youngish reader to have this chip on my shoulder, but I always sort of assume that poems by older people get mellower. Let me say it again: Rich’s lines are harrowing, are incensed…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure you’re all sick and tired of reading about the Crab Nebula. This week in European pedestrian bridges. Lady tears be making dudes testosterone levels go down and such. Flavorwire has a handy slide show of great modern museum…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her collection Lucky Fish.
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Ishmael Reed On The “Jim Crow Media”
This last year Ishmael Reed published a book of satirical essays targeting the current American media: Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers. Despite being a MacArthur Fellow, a critically-acclaimed author of nine novels…
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The Best Single Issue Of Any Literary Magazine
Is? That’s what Luna Park asks. And comes up with Dirty Realism!
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Adapting Blood Meridian?
I just found out that James Franco is set to direct the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian which is the most violent novel I’ve ever read. So I pose the obvious questions: how will he pull it off?…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #61: The Sacred Thread
Limits are not punishments, but rather lucid and respectful expressions of our needs and desires and capabilities.
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival Shorts came through town for a one-night only showing, which I caught earlier this week at the grand old Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. The jury prize winner in international filmmaking, The Six Dollar Fifty…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Lots of tweets and texts and facebook updates may actually encourage more in-depth analysis. Tablets schmablets. Americans really just want more smartphones and TVs. Is RSS dying? Yeah, right. Police don’t need a warrant to dig through your cellphone (at…
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Wendy Breuer: The Last Book I Loved, Everything Flows
Russian journalist and novelist, Vasily Grossman, is the most humanist of writers. I found my way to him through his brilliant epic of WWII, Life and Fate. I didn’t want my conversation with him to end, so I continued on…