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HORN! REVIEWS: Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him
While Richard’s genius seems to have come from nowhere, this book unearths a century of American tradition that midwifed it.
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“The Only Tamil Rapper”
NPR titled this interview “M.I.A. On Being Heard,” and they were not joking around. In it, the Sri Lankan-British rapper relates all the things she’s had to do over the years to convince people to pay attention to a woman…
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Who Pays Writers? We Asked the Editors
In the free preview edition of the new online journal Scratch, which we posted about here, web editors discussed their jobs and paying writers.
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Roar Shack is back!
Roar Shack presents: A Word With You! This Sunday, November 10th at 826LA 4 PM, David Rocklin brings us another great edition of Roar Shack. Featured readings by: John Eder, Mario Piumetti, Wendy Fontaine, and Live Writer winner Justine Musk.…
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Songs of Our Lives: Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s “The Inflated Tear”
I decided that I had to write a book about him. I would track down everyone who knew him while they were still alive, I would collect their stories of him in the hopes of preserving Rashaan’s legacy.
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A Different Kind of Courtroom Battle for Harper Lee
Well, this is all rather awkward: Harper Lee, who is now 87 and in an assisted-living facility, is suing the gift shop of a museum in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, for trademark infringement. The museum, “built around a refurbished version…
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Recalculating by Charles Bernstein
Sean Singer reviews Charles Bernstein’s Recalculating today in Rumpus Poetry.
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On Missing A Bikini Kill Show
It’s not just punk clubs in small towns that are fragile ecosystems. All the worlds we inhabit are malleable places, made and destroyed and made again. The Toast has a magnificent piece by Jessanne Collins on the riot-grrrl world as…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Life, uh, finds a way; bacterium thrives in spacecraft cleanrooms. It’s been way too long since I’ve linked to a 50 Watts post. The Guardian looks at the awful political beliefs of great artists. Obviously the time has come to…
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The Rumpus Interview with Royal Young
Journalist Royal Young talks about his recent memoir, his past immersion in fame culture, and why our need to live publicly is often grounded in addictive behavior.
