February 2012
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy President’s Day you guys. We’re going to keep things low key and see y’all tomorrow.
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Happy President’s Day!
Artist extraordinaire Jon Adams brings us a very important message from our 16th President:
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Lit-Link Round-up
Sometimes, there’s so much cool stuff happening close to home, that a girl has to give in to Rumpus self-referentiality: 1) This has been Cheryl Strayed week, pretty much. If you’ve been down with dysentary since before Valentine’s Day, you…
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The Sunday Essay: Wrinkles and Time
Two roads really did diverge in a wood near the townhouse complex where I spent my ‘tween years. On one side of the road was suburbia: bland and uniform, dozens of doors with numbers and letters and little else to…
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Science Saturday
The Crab Nebula may be acting as a fast particle accelerator. If you’re going to take a picture of a black hole, you apparently need a telescope the size of Earth. So some scientists are building one, sort of. Tasmanian…
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Yeah, that’s pretty bad
It might not be the worst poem in the universe, as was recently claimed on Wikipedia, but Gina Rinehart’s paean to mining is pretty bad. I’ll copy a couple of couplets here for you, and you can decide whether to…
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Saturday Morning Links
Hard to believe, but in a week and a half, The Rumpus will be in Chicago for the AWP convention, and we’ll reading to raise money for 826 Chicago on the evening of March 1. I’ve been with the Rumpus…
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Porchlight: Young Love, Monday!
Porchlight is hosting an event at the Verdi Club on Monday, February 20th at 8p.m. The storytelling theme of the evening is “Young Love,” and our own managing editor Isaac Fitzgerald will be performing! Click here for tickets.
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The Rumpus Conversation between Jill Soloway and Elana Mann
I always tell people I met Elana Mann by stalking her. Monkey-swinging from link to link to link one day, I encountered her website and developed a hardcore girlcrush.
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R.I.P. Anthony Shadid
Yesterday, Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent, died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria. His memoir, House of Stone, is to be released in just a few weeks.
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The Untidy World
“In truth, memory’s great betrayal, that it will not lie intact in wait for us, is lament enough to revisit in every generation. This is what I go to nonfiction for, the way we pick at the scab, poke our…