June 2012
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Radiolab Live
Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman profiles Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad for Mother Jones. What happens when a nerdy science show experiments with live stage performances? A sneak peak: “‘Even Charles Darwin himself—Chuck D!—says, “The eye, to this day, gives me sort of…
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“Without the Spectacle, There is Nothing”
At Salon, Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay writes about the cheering of Sandusky’s guilty verdict, and our spectacle-centric culture. “The pictures are the story. The videos are the story. The confession of a broken man is the story. The protective…
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Notable San Francisco: 6/25-7/1
This Week in San Francisco: Monday 6/25: Books Inc. Opera Plaza hosts Daily Show contributors Lizz Winstead, author of Lizz Free or Die, and Kevin Bleyer, author of Me the People: One Man’s Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of…
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A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
For those of you with literary ambitions, be warned: this book might be painful. You will read A Sense of Direction and recall your confused chasing of said ambition, all that procrastination and thrown time, the (essential but still stinging)…
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Notable New York, This Week 6/25-7/1
This week in NYC: MONDAY 6/25: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya reads from The Watch, and will discuss with Anderson Tepper. McNally Jackson, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 6/26: Also at McNally Jackson, Glen Duncan discusses his most recent novel, Talulla Rising, with Megan Abbot…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Competence without comprehension. The Wizard of Oz, behind the scenes. An animated short film full of blue: “Backwater.” Human-powered helicopter hovers for 50 seconds.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Miller
For Jennifer Miller’s 32nd birthday, her mother gave her a 1957 issue of Time Magazine featuring the suave and clean-shaven journalism legend, Edward R. Murrow.
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Sunday Rumpus Serialization: Your Life in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (#2)
The debut Sunday Rumpus serialization continues with Rob Roberge’s wild ride through memory, identity, sex, trauma, music, addiction, love and loss.
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A Saturday Rumpus Advisory About the E-book Antitrust Lawsuit
Monday is the deadline for the public to comment on the settlements in the antitrust lawsuit the Department of Justice brought against several publishers, and Apple, for colluding against Amazon.
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I Intend To Stop Writing About Gender Sometime I Swear
Last Saturday, after I posted the Gone Girl essay that turned into another gender-in-literature rant, I thought to myself, “Self, let’s find a new subject, surely your readers are getting bored. You are getting bored.” But then the Jonah Lehrer thing happened…
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The Contenders
The National Book Award Foundation recently launched an online exhibition devoted to the 373 books that were NBA Fiction Finalists between 1950 and 2011. Now a permanent part of the foundation’s website, the digital archive will expand each year as…
