2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I never realized how lacking my life was in upside down flying rhinos. If any one is wondering what to get me for Christmas this year, might I suggest one of the robots of Wu Yulu. I hope you’re all…
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Why Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won: A Poet’s Report from the Trenches
The demands on Occupy Wall Street far outnumber the demands by Occupy Wall Street — because occupiers don’t demand, they exist and they triumph by using their existence to overwrite the host. But unlike an invading army, we don’t have…
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Love and Shame and Love Review
“Instead of a sustained narrative, hundreds of snapshots from Alexander’s past are pieced together—though ‘snapshots’ suggests something static, and each of these eye-blink vignettes is animated by yearning and often by cries of desire or despair.” The Wall Street Journal…
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Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Majority of protesters are not Republicans, nor are they Democrats: “70 percent of Occupy Wall Streeters label themselves ‘independent.’” There are also more children now, and they are there to learn. Occupy Wall Street, the coloring book. Mother Jones answers…
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Writing About Writing
“Advice about writing is more importantly writing itself, and it defines its own rules and strictures as much as it instructs its adherents directly. In the words of these masters we find the strength to go on.” This Recording compiles…
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Notable San Francisco 11/7-11/13
This week in San Francisco- Monday 11/7: USF hosts Matthea Harvey reading from her new work, Of Lamb. Her work has been reviewed by George Saunders as a ‘vision of America [that is] spooky, apocalyptic, and beautiful: proof that there…
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Kevin Thomas #OWS
Our own Kevin Thomas has posted an insightful #OWS comic over at OccupyWriters.com. You can check it out here. Enjoy!
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #109
APPLE PIE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing apple pie.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Nothing Twice” by Wislawa Szymborska
The last poem I loved was “Nothing Twice” by the well-known Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. I loved all of her poems that followed, but “Nothing Twice” was the first Szymborska poem I ever read. Last week, I was on my…
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There’s Still Time to Get Love and Shame and Love!
November’s Book Club selection is Love and Shame and Love (Little, Brown), a novel by Peter Orner (whose column you can follow here on the Rumpus). Orner traverses three generations of the Popper family, through which he considers the intricate…
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Irreconcilable Differences
Gary Lutz’s new collection, divorcer, tells seven stories of divorce that will captivate every reader―single, married or divorced.
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Notable New York, This Week 11/07-11/13
This week in New York, n+1 talks Occupy; a release party for Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence; Largehearted Lit reading at WORD; Leslie Goshko hosts music and poetry at the Nuyorican; Percival Everett at 192 Books; a discussion on…