2011
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Chuck Klosterman in SF
Today Aimee DeLong reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s new novel, The Visible Man, here at The Rumpus. Tonight Klosterman is reading at the Booksmith at 7:30pm in San Francisco. See you there?
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Flash Fiction Series
Guernica Daily just kicked-off a new flash fiction series “designed to showcase up-and-coming writers and artists.” Check out the first entry of the series and consider flashing them your own piece?
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Manufacturing Reality
“But if we are going to manufacture our reality, couldn’t we make it a bit better? The thing we seem to like manufacturing the best are enemies, and here we are all guilty. Al-Qaida manufactured a vision of the west…
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Do Not Screen
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes‘ latest project Do Not Screen is reviewed here. The piece explores Rombes’ take on film and what is “in between” the project’s process and result. “By leaving space for the time, Do Not Screen displays the…
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Feminist Non-Fiction Countdown
Ms. Magazine has been counting down the 100 best feminist non-fiction books. The complete compilation—based on reader nominations and voting—reveals a clear favorite: bell hooks has a total of seven books, including three in the top ten and the number…
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What Footnote?
“The e-book hasn’t killed the book; instead, it’s killing the ‘page.’ Today’s e-readers scroll text continuously, eliminating the single preformed page, along with any text defined by being on its bottom.” In this New York Times essay, Alexandra Horowitz discusses…
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Automation and Translation
Does the rise of new technology, specifically auto-translate, signal the death of human translation and multilingualism? David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, thinks not. Check out his reasoning in…
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Occupy Your Conscience: A Rumpus Exaltation
When I was four or five years old, my mom and dad called me and my brothers into the living room.
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Scenes From The Movie Cherry, Illustrated
Ian Huebert’s posters for the movie Cherry, directed by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott.
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On Not Giving Up
“Dearest A., please do not stop wanting, but turn your efforts toward seeking so that desire does not consume you.” Michael Copperman posts a letter to his friend, A., a recent MFA graduate, responding to her fear “of never being…
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A Visible Man In An Invisible World
Cognitive dissonance abounds in Chuck Klosterman’s second novel, The Visible Man, which ostensibly is about a guy who uses his ability to become virtually invisible as a way to enter peoples’ homes and watch them.