2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Our unmanned war drones have a virus. Let’s listen to some ditties made from iPhone sounds. A map of the US based on video game spending. R.I.P Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011. He’s already got a shrine.
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Elissa Shappnell Interview
“That was when I knew what I wanted to do was create these archetypal female characters — the slut, the good girl, the bad mother, the party girl, all these women we think we know — and subvert the reader’s…
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More Seuss!
“The creative vision of author and illustrator Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, introduced fantastic characters into the imaginations of generations of kids. Now, two decades after his death, a new book, The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories,…
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PR Pitches and Bitches
“We see your picture of Harry Connick Jr. standing near yarn/Tommy Lee Jones using a kleenex/insert-your-weird-pitch-here, and we raise you a picture of Wil Wheaton collating paper.” Accidental and intentional reply-alls. “Fucking bitch” name-calling. This email exchange between The Bloggess…
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The Rumpus Interview with Stuart Nadler
Stuart Nadler’s debut collection, The Book of Life, has been aptly compared to Bernard Malamud’s work. Like Malamud, Nadler crafts stories that are straightforward, classic and unsparing—and these stories explore tradition, faith, work and the strains of love and family.
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: The Adderall Diaries Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
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“Howl” Anniversary
Allen Ginsberg debuted “Howl” at the Six Gallery Reading on October 7, 1955. In 2006, for the 50th anniversary of the poem’s publication, City Lights came out with Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression and The Believer reflected…
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Today In Audience Participation
In his show Photographs with an Audience, Clifford Owens occupies a barren room with some lights, a camera, and his seated audience members. Participant answers to a series of questions determine who will be incorporated in each photograph. “By plucking…
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New E-bookstore
“We sell ebooks because ebooks are here to stay. We want to carve out a space in the retail environment for independent ebookselling by proving to publishers that it can and should be done. We want there to be a…
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Smoke In Your Eyes
SMOKE IN YOUR EYES: Dragon’s Breath A heartbreaking and beautiful Rumpus Comic from MariNaomi.
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A Mark of the Naive
Woodnote is a layered history, both natural and personal, that is ultimately about how we identify and describe what we encounter in the world, and how we identify ourselves inside that world.