April 2014
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A Book About The Internet
Americanah is a Book About The Internet, and Ifemelu is living the dream of basically every blogger I know: she gets big enough to make her living through writing stuff and posting it online.
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Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones
Graham Oliver reviews CRYSTAL EATERS by Shane Jones today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The whale poop hypothesis. Actually that wasn’t the world’s oldest message in a bottle. Let us now discuss Victorian era bathing machines. There is literally no way you don’t want to look at these pictures of a 13-year-old Mongolian eagle…
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The Rumpus Interview with John W. Evans
John W. Evans talks about his memoir Young Widower, which was partly borne from two Rumpus essays, and how to make meaning of something—especially grief and loss—if not through narrative.
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The New Year
Time has lost all meaning. We park and get out of the car. The air is briny and wet. I watch the waves dissolve into the sand.
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The Book That Wasn’t
Seventeen years ago I wrote a book, which you can find on Amazon and Google and elsewhere online. This is unusual only because my book was never published. Jason K. Friedman writes in the New York Times about his book…
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All the Shades of Black and White
Writing for The New Inquiry, Hannah Black explores race in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird and the relationship of white, black, and mixed racial identities in modern western culture. Similarly, race-authenticity does not spring up from the mere fact of…
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Social Media Year, 2080
In the spirit of Orwell, Saunders, and M.T. Anderson, see here for a glimpse at the future of social media: virtual reality dates, sensory augmentation, robots writing on humans in peer-reviewed journals. Sensory augmentations will make possible ever-deeper transports…
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How to Love a Writer
Writers are not the easiest people to fall in love with. Many of the characteristics of a great writer also make for a horrific companion. Over at Ploughshares, Amber Kelly-Anderson explores some of the things to expect when the heart wants a…
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The American Financial System in Story
Take a look at this review of Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys over at The Millions. There’s something endearing about Lewis’s project to unmask and reveal: The task Lewis sets for himself in Flash Boys is to pry the American financial system loose…
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National Poetry Month Day 16: “The electric body” by Matthew Siegel
The electric body changes like a sky bleeding peach, gray feathers and smoke – – a body…
