2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Does the Web need an owner? Facebook is starting a political action committee. A small segment of you may be very excited that the iPhone 5 is scheduled to launch in October. I’m excited that scientists think they could reactivate dormant…
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Litquake Chats Up Jesse Ball
In anticipation of their annual festival on October 7-15, San Francisco’s Litquake has teamed up with Bomblog for an interview series. This week, fiction writer and poet Jesse Ball—whose new novel, The Curfew, is on shelves—discusses favorite writers, words and…
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Caffeinated Ladies Fighting Depression
A new study suggests that drinking more than one cup of coffee a day may prevent the onset of depression in women. And the more you drink, the better: “The biggest coffee drinkers saw the largest reduction in risk, according…
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Love and Shame and Love Review
Publisher’s Weekly reviews our November Book Club pick, Love and Shame and Love, by Peter Orner (whose Rumpus column you can read here). “Two themes—sometimes comic, often rueful—intersect throughout: the secret shames, frustrations, and humiliations that each character endures, and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Pulitzer Prize Nominee Jonathan Dee
Google tells me there are many Jonathan Dees. One is an “authority” on practical astrology, color therapy and Feng Shui for the garden.
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Vonnegut’s Nuclear Bow-tie
Twenty years before Slaughterhouse-Five, a broke Kurt Vonnegut came up with an idea for an atomic bow-tie. While he became known for his environmentalism later in life, in 1950, Vonnegut—like America at large—seemed ready to cash-in on the atomic. “By…
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“God Bless America”
Fox News really likes Rumpus contributor Steve Almond’s new book, which is weird because they don’t really like Steve Almond.
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Road-Tripping
What do you look for in a highway? Curves? Covered bridges? Buffalos? This article walks us through the seven U.S. roads “worth building a dream road trip around.” “And finally, the mother of all scenic journeys, the 127 miles of…
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Morrison’s New Novel
Toni Morrison, who was in DC over the weekend to receive the 2011 Library of Congress National Book Festival Award for Creative Achievement, took part in a Q&A for the The Hay-Adams Author Series. The author touched on her upcoming…
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Juggalos: True Fringe Culture
“Finally, something should be said for the fact that although I like to identify myself with punks and outcasts and ‘fringe culture’ (whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean), the truth is that Juggalos are the real outcasts, they’re the…
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Frankenstein’s Conception
“Shelley has long been doubted for her version of events that led to the writing of one of the most beloved Gothic tales in the English language: That she wrote it on a challenge one night in June 1816 during…