November 2012
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Last Night On Earth
A San Diego-based arts collective, So Say We All, called for submissions based on the prompt: “Tonight, the world will end. Everything you love will cease to exist. How do you spend your last 24 hours? When everything you know…
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Andrew Solomon: not afraid to go there
Andrew Solomon’s “Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity” seems like a book we might like. Solomon cuts to the heart of the many possible events and conditions that throw a family into chaos and the…
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Storm-Torn Relics
“That red convertible we were so proud of looks as though it is about to be struck by a meteor. And every moment — the prom, the dance recital, the snowman’s construction — is painted now with bright yellows and…
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The Freestyle Cortex
A sudden burst of improvisational creativity may feel almost supernatural in origin, but there’s a biological basis for it, say researchers. How did they study it? By scanning the brains of freestyling rappers, of course. They found that rapping memorized…
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Thursday, November 19, 1863
149 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered a brief but monumental speech that would come to be known as “The Gettysburg Address.”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #161
THANKSGIVING, 2012 ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Thanksgiving, 2012.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Is Franz Wright the Rush Limbaugh of American Poetry?
I had intended this week to write about gratitude. To express my thanks to all the new readers of Poetry Wire and The Rumpus and to wish you all a pleasant Thanksgiving. I wanted to say something about the necessity…
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Nick Cave Monday #10: “The Carny”
When we die, “The Carny” will be our soundtrack. Us humans, who have been jonesing for beliefs and answers about the afterlife in this existence…. We will enter a red tent and DJ will drop the needle on the second…
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Notable San Francisco 11/19-11/24
This Week in San Francisco! What does the turkey have to be thankful for? http://www.friendssfpl.org/?$1_Book_Sale: Lit Slam hosts its first ever book launch for Tandem, a collection of the best of two years of audience-curated readings. Featuring readings and music…
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Brothers Grimm Redux
Mother Jones interviews Phillip Pullman, author of the Dark Materials series, about his new book–a collection of stories retelling the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. “When I first started writing, I tried to [write in a modern style], but I…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you haven’t already, take a little gander at our posts from this weekend! “How’s your day been?” and other things women have said to Calenture in Australian brothels. Like “Do you mind if I drink from your glass?” and…
