2012
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’ll be keeping things low key over the next week with a handful of original content over the holidays. Our regular features will return in 2013. See you on the other side! Obligatory end of the world link. Important news:…
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I Like My Oatmeal Lumpy, or How I Came To Rap The Humpty Dance in front of New York’s Literary Elite
On an unseasonably warm day in October, I was invited to participate in The Happy Ending Reading and Music Series
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TMN 2013 Tournament of Books!
The Morning News just announced its 2013 list for the tournament of books! And as they say, “the granddaddy of highbrow bracketology is back!” The list of 16 books will compete against each other come March, and a roster of…
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Judge a Book by Its Cover
E-books have sort of shadowed the art of the book cover. Yet at The New York Times, graphic designers were asked to cast their votes on the best-looking book jackets of the year. Even if you are an e-reader convert,…
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Holiday Wishes
A French bulldog. Big turkey dinners. Happiness. At The Atlantic, Rumpus pal Jon Cotner has taken another stroll through New York City streets to pose blunt, fun questions to strangers. This time the query was: What is your holiday wish?…
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The Rumpus Interview with a Ginza Hostess
Mayumi, a hostess in the Ginza district of Japan, lends an intimate perspective of the country’s notorious Water Trade.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Again with the lists. 2012 in space photos. Maybe the answer to our Earth problems lie in Tau Ceti. Perhaps you have wondered, why do we have magma? (More) mid-century window displays. Welcome back pygmy right whale!
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Dream Girl
Going through dating profiles is like reading the same book over and over again. Everyone is happy and loves to laugh. Everyone likes beer and coffee and rain. They all spend their weekends hiking and camping.
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Kid Lit Before It Was Kid Lit
A recent Slate Explainer details what children read before the advent of “children’s literature.” The answer: “Epic poems, religious literature, romances, and Aesop.” Looks like English kids had it better than most, with their stories about adventurous knights and talking foxes,…
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Writers from Vermont to Oregon and Everywhere In Between
“There is a tendency to place the center of the writing universe in New York City. This is understandable—countless writers live there. Have you heard about this magical place called Brooklyn? The media certainly has.” If you needed another reminder…
