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The Internet Is Really Creepy Sometimes
If, while posting selfies to Twitter and reblogging Pacific Rim GIFs on Tumblr, you ever feel a pang of nostalgia for the Wilder Westier days of the Internet, here’s a story for you: In January of 2012, a mysterious series of…
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Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying on Film
Check out Joseph Entin’s even-handed review of James Franco’s movie adaptation of “As I Lay Dying” at LARB. Franco has tackled the über-challenging multi-perspective modernist piece where others demurred, and has come away with something worthy of examination, particularly by…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #210
AMAZON’S DELIVERY DRONES ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Amazon’s delivery drones.
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The Rumpus Holiday Spectacular!
In exactly one week, Join Guernica & The Rumpus & Buzzfeed Book for a HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR! We’ll sing, we’ll dance, we’ll drink, and last but not least, we’ll have a Secret Santa!
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Notable SF: 12/2–12/8
Monday 12/2: The Bazaar Writers Salon, hosted by Peter Kline, features readings by Christopher Kempf, Scott Laughlin, and Bruce Snider and music by Bob Hillman. Free, 7 p.m. at Bazaar Cafe. Tuesday 12/3: Dodie Bellamy comes to City Lights to…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A New Poetry Emerges from Iran
If war is a defeat for poetry, what is diplomacy? Like poetry, diplomacy involves craft and discretion, finesse and poise, skill and subtlety. It requires canniness, deliberation, presence of mind, and shrewdness, as well as providence and wisdom. I’ve been…
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Notable Los Angeles 12/2–12/8
Monday 12/2: Jesse Lasky presents and signs Schooled in Revenge. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 12/3: Marla Frazee presents and signs God Got a Dog. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Wednesday 12/4: Mark Haskell Smith discusses and signs Raw:…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Hope your Thanksgiving was bountiful and your travel experience wasn’t too terrible! Here’s what we had going on on the Rumpus this weekend. Lydia Kiesling’s review of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch has stirred up a little controversy, but it’s thoughtful and…
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Call Me Brooklyn by Eduardo Lago
Catherine Carberry reviews Eduardo Lago’s CALL ME BROOKLYN today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Punctuation Problem
We didn’t know there was one until Slate‘s Matthew Malady pointed out the limitations of English punctuation. Look, I’m the last one to encourage the excessive use of exclamation points. But if we are going to use them—and they do…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Um, so, the nuclear launch code was 00000000. The metropolis of tomorrow (1929). Meanwhile: The (dystopian) future is now! Amazon wants to send you your items via drones. Perhaps you’d like to watch a small squid fight an owlfish. The BBC takes a look at…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #52: Chris Abrahams Riffs
There are not so many great bands anymore, not like there once were. But there’s still Australian experimental jazz trio the Necks.