2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ve got a good feeling about this year. Let’s start off 2011 in Morning Coffee right, with x-ray lightning! This is honestly the most terrifying thing I can imagine. Let us now discuss Science Fiction Broadway Musical flops of the…
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Readers Report Back From… Neighborhood
Rumpus readers hang out in the ‘hood. Edited by Susan Clements.
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Public Domain Day
Yesterday was public domain day. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leon Trotsky, Emma Goldman, and Mikhael Bulgakov, among others, are now free of copyright restrictions. Erm, in Europe. This whole thing is really confusing, and I’m no lawyer. But as far as…
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An Album Of Banned Music
“And if I would have known when I was a child what I was about to get myself into, you know, I really do wonder if I would have pursued this.” — At Guernica, an interview with Deeyah, whose involvement…
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“A cheerful communist kazoo concert”
“Compared to El Salvador, Nicaragua was like playing jacks. The two countries were nothing alike. El Salvador was your basic mail-order military dictatorship: terror and torture, stuttering civilians. Nicaragua was more like a cheerful communist kazoo concert.” The Believer has…
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Smelling 300,000 Books
“It’s a daring idea,” says David Senior, a MoMA bibliographer and friend, “because some of our books smell really bad.”” A woman in New York is smelling all 300,000 books in the MoMA library and writing ab0ut it in pencil…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Because it’s now the future, everything is about technology today! Kyle Minor is over at GIANT talking about the Kindle. Publishers are giving kids advanced copies of books and asking them what they think. (via) David Ulin talks about how…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Remember, Poetry Book Club Members–the chat with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her book Lucky Fish is Monday the 3rd at 9:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. PST. Check your email for the url and the password. I knew, when I took the…
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Did you miss…
Lots of great content at The Rumpus this week, but not enough commenting. Come on, y’all. Let’s have a conversation or ten here, because there’s wonderful stuff to talk about like: Mario Tama’s New Orleans Ted Wilson’s review of pepper…
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Science Saturday
This story isn’t about a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but it does talk about more dignified treatments for those who suffer from it. And besides, if you’re 95 and in deep dementia, what does it matter if you eat a…