2011
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Notable New York, This Week 11/14-11/20
This week in New York, the Franklin Park Reading Series with Electric Literature; Authors & Editors with Peter Orner, Love and Shame and Love, and his editor, Pat Strachan; Page Meets Stage with U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine and spoken-word…
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Did You Hear about Bradley?
Hal Niedzviecki’s new collection, Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened, asks us what is essential to narrative.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s time to say goodbye to the Western Black Rhino. Swing based guerilla art remains my favorite kind of guerilla art. Birds are so mad at us right now. Maybe you need a pointillism printer. And here’s your library design porn…
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WHERE I WRITE #18: Where I Draw
Artist Jason Novak puts his own spin on our “Where I Write” series. Enjoy:
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Wikipedia’s Worst Writing
I usually read Wikipedia to find the answers to find the answer to totally random questions that I feel a burning need to find answers to, such as: How many kids made up the DeBarge family? or What is District…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I’m feeling concise. You can check out and help build the Occupy Wall Street library catalogue here. Books that aren’t quite books? (via) How self-publishing is taking off in China. Interactive book covers.
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One World, Many Narratives
Rumpus Contributor Mark Folse reports back from the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Words & Music Conference from Odd Words with gems like this: “Or we can begin with the first question: why American’s don’t read more foreign literature. ‘It’s about…
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An Occupy Roundup
Yesterday was Veterans Day and the American Occupation of America was focused on its members who have served in the armed forces. In the hot front city of Oakland, Scott Olsen, the first veteran seriously injured when police fired ordinance…
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Science Saturday
Look, up in the sky! It’s a…Russian probe crashing back to Earth. A new robotic sportscaster–as long as he’s less irritating than Chris Berman, I’m in. I’m shocked! Shocked! to discover the EPA has found fracking compounds in a Wyoming…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who commented on or liked or otherwise communicated their appreciation for “The Spirit of Violent Lamentation.” I’m glad it touched people in a positive way. Also, it was a complete coincidence…
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Blueprints of the Afterlife Website Launch
Rumpus Columnist Ryan Boudinot’s new book Blueprints of the Afterlife (which he discussed in an interview in July) now has a website! Be on the lookout for new blogs and event updates as the release date, January 3rd, approaches. Other…