2011
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Linear Parks
Linear parks have sprung from abandoned rail lines in cities nationwide. This article looks at the most well-known of these industrial transformations, New York’s High Line park, along with examples of other abandoned railroads, bridges, canals and factories that have…
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Joan Didion On Blue Nights
“What she has written instead is a kind of biography of Joan Didion, and an elusive one at that. Like her novels, it’s more a work of accumulation than of argument, at the end of which Quintana the grown-up remains…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
The Occupy Wall Street protests enter their second month, and have started to garner a lot more media attention. One of the people responsible for that attention is NYPD Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona, who spun a protestor around and punched…
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Magazine Review #8: Boat Magazine, Issue 1
Boat Studio, a small creative firm based in London, packed up their office and moved to Sarajevo for a month to make a magazine. The idea: to get people to take notice of forgotten cities around the world and to…
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The Last Book of Poetry I Loved: L.A. Liminal
The week I decided to move to Los Angeles, I read a book of poetry by a woman who had lived there for four years, hated it, left it for New York, and couldn’t stop writing poems about it. It…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Can we just agree that being buried alive is the scariest possible thing? Occupy the Tundra! Maybe we live inside a black hole. Maybe a lot of things. Oh Jean Cocteau, what will we do with you? I think we…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr knows how easily the dark parts of the psyche can be sustained and deepened by the seamy parts of city life — drink, drugs, chronic poverty, and sad selfish sex.
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Wayward In The Light
Set in a dive bar, Joshua Mohr’s new novel, Damascus follows a weird gang as their lives crumble. Somehow it’s still life-affirming.
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Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Today marks ONE MONTH for #OccupyWallStreet, which has reached more than 900 cities across the globe. “There is no honor hurting unarmed civilians and I won’t let it happen.” Sergeant Shamar Thomas lectures NYPD, plus a little about #OccupyMARINES. #OccupyLondon:…
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Ohio’s Middle Class
“‘You’re not really about to fire somebody else, are you?’ I ask. ‘Yeah.’ ‘You just fired somebody less than 10 minutes ago.’ ‘Yeah, but he’s been taking too many breaks.’ ‘Are you kidding? Is anybody going to ask him why…
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Writers In Support of The Occupy Movement
“We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.” OccupyWriters.com has some new original work posted today, including “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall…