2014
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s just get one thing straight, NO ONE needs steam-punk themed luxury condos. Incidentally: artificial leaches and other failed Victorian inventions. Let’s all take a trip through PT Anderson’s San Fernando Valley. Endre Neme (is pretty great). It’s way harder…
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The Rumpus Review of Nightcrawler
Gyllenhaal is a perfect sociopath. His calm and calculated demeanor is accentuated by the hollow look in his eyes. He delights in the demise of his peers. He has no remorse. Sounds like the kids I went to college with.
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Rumpus Holiday Gifts!
Searching for perfect holiday gifts? We’ve got you covered. This year, we’ve put together some great bundles, perfect for Rumpus addicts and newbies who want to dive in headfirst, like The Rumpus Travel Bundle and the Big Bag o’ Rumpus. You can find all things Sugar here,…
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Turning to Baldwin During Tragedy
Art has to be a confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort, it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with…
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Since We Last Spoke
Paul Ford touches on the delicate art of reconnecting over email, after years and years of silence, for Medium.
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #262
OKCUPID ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing OkCupid.
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12 Days of Potter
Subscription website Pottermore, the Harry Potter-themed site run by author J.K. Rowling, is getting twelve days of new content. Widely reported as though Rowling is releasing twelve new stories, the new content is somewhat less elaborate, including such things as…
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Willful Ignorance
Over at the New Yorker, Alaksandar Hemon reads a slice of Nabokov; afterward, he chats about the foreignness of language, learning English from Pnin, and the book’s “complicated innocence” towards America.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, feast your eyes upon Anne Emond’s visual ode to a lazy weekend and Grant Snider’s cartoon-in-verse, “Outside My Window.” In “Changeling,” Stephen Policoff uses serendipitous advice and the paintings of “mad artist” Richard Dadd to unlock the secret to…
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A History of the New York Times Notable Books
For Salon, Laura Miller dug through two decades’ worth of the New York Times Notable Books to see how the list has evolved over the years.
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Alphabet and Paradise and Elsewhere by Kathy Page
Leland Cheuk reviews Alphabet and Paradise and Elsewhere by Kathy Page today in Rumpus Books.
