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Come To The Frequencies #3 Release Party In LA!
LA Rockers! Go to Stories Books and Cafe tonight at 7 pm for the release of Two Dollar Radio’s Frequencies #3, a biannual journal of artful essays. The release party features the stylistic readings of Rumpus contributor Grace Krilanovich and Sara Finnerty, as well as Trinie Dalton,…
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John the Posthumous by Jason Schwartz
Kevin Nolan reviews JOHN THE POSTHUMOUS by Jason Schwartz today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
No, brutalist buildings weren’t designed to stop student riots. Suicide machine art is neat. Don’t worry, animals will save us from the zombie apocalypse. Everyone loves mysterious soviet era group deaths (not counting those involved). Spiders are a pretty scary…
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The Car that Brought You Here Still Runs
After taking medications and following a treatment plan, the hospitalizations had gradually replaced family vacations, and I only seemed to be getting worse. “Is it possible you’re wrong about me?” I asked. “Is it possible this whole thing is a…
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When Hippies and Rednecks Joined Forces
I can’t tell you how much these guys scared Nashville. Texans didn’t know who was boss. Texas Monthly has a must-read oral history of the creation of a new type of country music in Austin in the ’70s. Musicians like…
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Quiller-Couch: Darling Killer
Just in time for the release of Kill Your Darlings, a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, Slate asks, “Who really said you should ‘kill your darlings’?” The answer: not Ginsberg or William Faulkner, both of whom the quote is often…
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Mendokusai (I Can’t Be Bothered)
Young people who aren’t interested in marriage or children, sure, but young people who aren’t interested in sex? According to this article in the Guardian, that’s increasingly the case in Japan, where a government survey “found that 45% of women aged…
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Bill Watterson Breaks Silence
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #204
MY WELCOME MAT ★★★★★ (0 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my welcome mat.
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Jason Novak Draws Monkeys for Esquire
Sending a monkey into space, as Iran will do later this month, is only one of many bad ideas involving monkeys and technology. Luckily, our very own Jason Novak has an illustrated essay in Esquire about some of the other things you shouldn’t…
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Notable San Francisco: 10/21–10/27
Monday 10/21: Lauren Grodstein, author of The Explanation of Everything, and Adam Mansbach, author of The Dead Run, discuss their books, careers, and the writing life. Free, 7:30pm at The Booksmith. Tuesday 10/22: Poetry Flash and Moe’s Books present poets…
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Breaking Out of the “Reservation of My Mind”
Sherman Alexie always loved to read, but it never occurred to him that he—or any other Native American, for that matter—could become a writer. That all changed when he read a poem by Adrian C. Louis and came to the…