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Swinging Modern Sounds #26: The Cessation of Miracles
The city of brotherly love is always reinventing itself, coming up with varieties of eccentricity meant to distract from its diet of horrors, for example, a good baseball team.
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Hope You Don’t Have Anything to Do for Awhile
The Paris Review has posted its entire collection of interviews online. All of them. What does it cost to gain access to such an amazing archive? Why $0.00 of course. Enjoy. (via TheMillions)
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McNally in the Spotlight
Poets & Writers profiles one of our favorite New York City bookstores, McNally Jackson Books.
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A Surfboard Not an Ark: Reflections on Electric Literature
Andy Hunter, editor of the brilliant lit mag Electric Literature, gives Publisher’s Weekly an informative retrospective on his journal and his thoughts about the future of publishing. For those unaware, you can purchase print copies of Electric Literature, PDFs, or…
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Notes from an Adam Levin Reading
Rumpus Book Club member Robert Pham attended an Adam Levin reading yesterday. Here he shares his notes on the event: “Ready to rock?” I overhear from behind me. “Rock!” Adam Levin drove up from Chicago for a 7 PM reading…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 10/31
This week in New York KGB goes Nonfiction, Small Press Extravaganza at WORD, Eric Puchner shares his Model Home, One Story at powerHouse, Eileen Myles reads from A Poets Novel, and we celebrate Halloween with Anya Sapozhnikova, an extreme After-Life…
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Adam (Expletive) Levin
Adam Levin, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club pick The Instructions, shares his thoughts about eReaders:
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The Hearts of Kings
Etchings by Stefan Eggeler for Die Herzen der Konige (1922) by Hanns Heinz Ewers:
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Teleny and Camille
Today, in Book Review, Evan J. Peterson reviews Jon Macy’s latest graphic novel, Teleny and Camille, a new take on the Oscar Wilde story. Read the review.
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Teleny and Camille
A story of gay erotica often traced to Oscar Wilde has been made into a luscious graphic novel, courtesy of Nefarismo illustrator Jon Macy.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Tuesday, let’s watch some animals fight. Architizer takes us on a tour of the world’s visitor centers. Behold the world’s first space center. (2010 dudes!) 19th Century Scottish death obsessions are way more charming than mine. This week…
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And This Is Word For Word: The Theory of Relatability and Rethinking Justin Long’s Face
There was a night last month where I couldn’t sleep. I had to be up early for another full day of screenings and filing at the Toronto International Film Festival, but my mind was cycling through a generic course of…