June 2012
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Car Talk Retirement
Tom and Ray, NPR’s Car Talk brothers, have announced that they’re retiring come October. The good news is there will continue to be a weekly program pulled from the archives. “But to our fans, don’t be sad. We’ve managed to…
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THE WEEK IN GREED #8: Explaining Taxes to a Five Year Old
One nice thing about small children is that they aren’t scared to ask questions. They haven’t completely absorbed the idea that ignorance is shameful.
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Sinead O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds by Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton
It’s 1990. I’ve shut the door to my bedroom, like any self-respecting teenage girl, to listen to my new CD—the one I ordered for a penny from one of those promotional if-you-sign-up-we’ll-give-you-the-world catalogs.
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Frontal Cortex
This week The New Yorker launched a new science blog called Frontal Cortex, by Jonah Lehrer. (Did you catch our interview with him?) The inaugural post touts the virtues of day-dreaming.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The question on everyone’s minds: can spiders kill in space? Christopher Herwig’s photos of Soviet bus stops are my favorite things today. Not to keep posting about the Diamond Jubilee, but the York Minster lawn flooring is pretty neat. Let’s…
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“I had only two career options: revolutionary or comedian”
Nato Green talks with AlterNet about offending people, labor organizing, touring with Laughter Against the Machine, and more. “I plunged into comedy because that’s the way I know how to make sense of the world. When I started going to…
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The Rumpus Interview with Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YaRdS
Merrill Garbus’s music is hard to define or readily summarize.
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Lit Link Love
We’re excited to be included on Oxford American’s recommended links page! Thanks, Oxford American. We love you back!
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Live Forever
In September of 1932, just hours after his uncle’s funeral, twelve-year-old Ray Bradbury was walking down the familiar streets of Waukegan, Illinois when he spotted a carnival tent on the shores of Lake Michigan. The night prior, young Bradbury had…
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The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “The Rumpus Release Party for Dear Sugar’s Tiny Beautiful Things” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! Friday, July 27th at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 6:30pm. With readings from Elissa Bassist, Yuvi Zalkow, and the woman of…
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Publishing Via Google Docs
At HTML Giant, Blake Butler reflects on Marie Calloway’s Google doc pieces: “They are surprising and create a feeling that seems like a secret private virus or a window. There are people in the world.” Here’s our interview with Calloway.
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Get Your Sugar From the Source
Cheryl Strayed has a collection of her wildly popular Dear Sugar columns, some never before published, coming out this July. The book is called Tiny Beautiful Things, and it is available for pre-order right here on The Rumpus!