2011
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T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx
“Where Eliot was the famous defender of tradition, order and civilised taste, the crux of Groucho’s humour was flouting tradition, fomenting chaos and outraging taste. ‘I have had a perfectly wonderful evening,” he once said to a host, ‘but this…
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Almond and Maron
“Author Steve Almond shows Marc that writers can be just as tortured and self-doubting as comedians. The two of them discuss the highs and lows of a writer’s creative process.” Marc Maron, Rumpus friend (who has been interviewed on Rumpus…
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The NYT Offends with its Sunday Book Review of Zone One
A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star, right? Well that’s what New York Times book reviewer Glen Duncan thinks. In his Sunday Book Review of Colson Whitehead’s complex new zombie novel, Zone…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #108
MY NAME ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my name.
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Notable San Francisco 10/31-11/6
This week in San Francisco… Monday 10/31: Freak yourself out on fun all day: ghost hunter Jeff Dwyer reads from – and guides a tour of – A Ghost Hunter’s Guide to the SF Bay Area. SOMA’s cocktail crawl starts…
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Post-it Notes from the Underground #2
The following is a “Post-It Note record” created by writer/illustrator Joe Kloc, based on scenes he witnessed while attending Occupy Oakland.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Baumgardner
Jennifer Baumgardner, a third wave feminist and activist, discusses archiving, zines, Bjork and her new book, F ’em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls.
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The Winner Returns
A 1972 novel recently re-released, Rosalyn Drexler’s To Smithereens plays with fact and imagination, memoir and fiction, in ways seldom seen in her own era.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/31-11/06
This week in New York, a Housing Works Halloween party with Granta magazine; Chuck Palahniuk reads from Damned; get Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! at Word; Four Way Books reading at McNally Jackson; a reading with 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winner; First…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Evidently today is Halloween, so perhaps you’d like to read about a zombie dog. Meanwhile, to get you ready for Weds, perhaps you need a guide to where to visit all those saints. “Yeah, well, STEPHEN HAWKING supports my crazy…
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Rejected Guinness World Records
Shortest or tallest person in the world, longest hair or longest nails, oldest person—these are world records I can understand. Perhaps even setting a record for baking the biggest cupcake. But there are those world records that leave me scratching…
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No Rent Reduction for St. Mark’s
Apparently, Cooper Union is broke, which means St. Mark’s Bookshop owners Bob Constant and Terry McCoy’s request for a rent deduction was denied. From the Daily News: “…their bid for a $5,000 rent cut was nixed by landlord Cooper Union…