November 2012
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure we’re all going to be preoccupied for the next two days, so let’s take a moment to talk about shark sex. The golden age of space (can be yours)(for money)! World-class skulls. It is (maybe) finally time to…
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The Play Is Over, Let’s Go Home
Remember (if you can) how it felt, remember Cheney (“Dick”), remember his sneer. Remember what it did to that knot in your back every time you failed to turn away from the television in time and accidentally glanced at his…
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Nick Cave Monday #8: “Into My Arms”
I have dedicated “Into My Arms” to every woman I have fallen in love with. They were only able to rent this song while they had my heart.
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Lit-Link Round-up
This week’s Sunday essay is from Susan Straight. Here’s Susan talking to Brad Listi at Other People. Tod Goldberg is interviewing her for the Rumpus soon. Something about this election is giving everyone PTSD flashbacks of Ayn Rand. Here’s Steve…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Van Halen and the Butcher’s Apron
Susan Straight takes us through the convoluted Tuesdays of election season, through family memories of the music that defined a generation, and poetry that preserves her soul in soulless times.
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Joke or Treat
Artist Jon Cotner celebrated Halloween by collecting jokes from his neighbors in Brooklyn. Check out his slideshow at The Hairpin.
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Juicy Poetry and Film Theory for Your Friday
HTMLGIANT features Carrie Lorig’s breathtaking review of Raul Zurita’s Dreams for Kurosawa, a book of poems provoked jointly by the film Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (take that literally; Kurosawa directed a haunting film which reproduced dreams he actually had) and Augusto Pinochet’s horrific…
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Amazon bans Authors from posting book Reviews
If you’re an author on Amazon, your days of posting book reviews may have come to an end. Amazon’s new book review policy classifies Amazon authors as competitors, and competitors cannot review each others “products.” At Jacket Copy, Carolyn Kellogg…
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The Good Old Days
Before social media, people spread ideas with postcards. Collectors Weekly features an article of the double-edged sword variety. Lisa Hicks provides a selection of Suffrage-era postcards (both pro and against), but her accompanying essay is a far cry from a…
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A FAN’S NOTES, THE RUMPUS SPORTS COLUMN #44: The Immortal Head-butt
What if one of your worst moments as a human being was sculpted into a 16-foot-tall bronze statue and displayed in front of a shopping mall? Or a Parisian art museum?
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Prop 34: The fate of the Death Penalty
The United States is one of only four industrialized democracies that still practice capital punishment. This upcoming election, Prop 34 will determine the fate of the death penalty in California. Alexandra Gross’ personal essay, “My Childhood Pen-Pal Was an Innocent Man…
