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    Max Gray

    Song of the Day: “These Days”

    The aptly dubbed neo-blues duo The Black Keys have made a name for themselves by giving an old and hallowed genre a fresh sheen. Since forming in 2001, the hard-touring band have won a handful of Grammys and a large…

  • Olivia Olivia

    Notable Portland: 12/11–12/17

    Thursday 12/11: Shannon Page reads from her new book, Our Lady of the Islands. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 7 p.m., free. Three local poets, Thomas Mowe, Coleman Stevenson, and John Sibley Williams, read from their latest work. Daedalus Books,…

  • Alex Norcia

    True Lies

    At Salon, Laura Miller covers a recent update in the ongoing criticism of—and legal proceedings involving—Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Ronald Nye, the son of Harold Nye, a former agent for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation who has since died,…

  • Guia Cortassa

    For Real

    Time and again we hear about a new desire for the real, about a realism which is realistic set against an avant-garde which isn’t, and so on. In his new essay over at the London Review of Books, Tom McCarthy…

  • Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold
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    Brian Gresko

    Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold

    Brian Gresko reviews Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold today in Rumpus Books.

  • Lyz Lenz

    Journalism vs. Silicon Valley

    What is really at the heart of the debate over The New Republic? The tension between an engineering culture and an editorial culture is …damaging and oversimplified … but definitely real. At the recent Newsgeist conference – a coming-together of…

  • THE BINS: Frosty
    Lucas Adams

    THE BINS: Frosty

  • Dan Weiss

    Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

    Welcome the world, Ice XVI. Welcome to the known world, strange ancient arctic mollusk. Meanwhile, in manta ray busting news. Actually water probably DIDN’T come from comets. The Parable of the Polygons (is pretty fascinating).

  • Eventually, We All Become Members of the Dead Dad Club
    Erika Price

    Eventually, We All Become Members of the Dead Dad Club

    Dads are a funny thing. So many of us have strained relationships with them.

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    The Rumpus

    Next Letter in the Mail: Anna March

    We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Rumpus contributor Anna March! Anna shares a story she’s never told before, of running away, being lost, and how she found comfort and purpose at the Chesapeake…

  • Ian MacAllen

    Hachette Turns to Twitter

    Amazon and Hachette finally resolved their ongoing dispute last month, but the fracas served to illustrate the risk involved with relying on Amazon for such a huge portion of sales. As a result, Hachette is looking to diversify its digital…

  • Dinah Fay

    Official Bards for the Bay State

    All but six US states have official Poet Laureates; the Massachusetts House of Representatives is poised to cut that number down to five. Although many individual cities appoint poets to these literary ambassador positions, the larger Commonwealth has never passed…

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