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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/25-10/31
This week: How Language Shapes Thought, the final Kaliedoscope Reading Series of the year, Muni Diaries Live! at the Makeout Room, and San Francisco’s favorite holiday (after Folsom Street Fair and LoveFest) — Halloween! Monday 10/25: While The Rumpus’ book…
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Amazon Dodges More Taxes
Texas has issued an assessment claiming that Amazon owes the state “$269 million for uncollected sales tax.” Amazon has issued an apology and plans on cutting the state a check as soon as possible. Just kidding.
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Blurring Books and Apps
As many Rumpus readers know, founding editor Stephen Elliott has created an app for his most recent book, The Adderall Diaries. The New York Times has picked up the story, and credits Elliott and the good folks at Electric Literature…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #58
WHOEVER WROTE “FUCK YOU” IN THE DIRT ON MY CAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing whoever wrote “fuck you” in the dirt on my…
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Podcast Q&A With Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein
Over at Hot Metal Bridge, Steve Gillies hits us with a podcast version of a Q&A with Lorin Stein. Introduced by author Chuck Kinder, Lorin Stein talks with the book review editor of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and chats about Freedom…
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On the various contrivances by which German orchids are fertilised by zombies, and on the good effects of intercrossing…
Illustrations from Der Orchideengarten (1919), the world’s first fantasy magazine:
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Depressed Creativity? Sort Of.
When Martin Heidegger wrote his gargantuan Magnus opus, Being and Time, he posited that it was Angst, the fundamental human condition, that brought us into the most authentic relationship with our selves and our surroundings. Angst, for Heidegger, is caused…
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Underneath the bleeping trappings of science fiction is a domestic drama: immigrant family, fighting parents, middle-aged father with failed dreams, sensitive son, mother in denial.
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Sara Young: The Last Book I Loved, Poop
I was recently given a book called Poop by Sam Sharpe. It is a small, handmade, self-published book with a series of visual puns that run through its pages, one of which involves some confusion between the words “luncheon” and “lynching.”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Big Day Coming. Department of this-is-how-people-spend-their-time: a collection of upside down n’s. In 2010 we use math to figure out how to properly wrinkle video game clothing. Google Map based art is the new Lego art. Paleo-Future brings you gardens…
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The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters
Two funny women interviewed each other about their lives. They’re also sisters. They were raised like twins, best friends, by a hovering yet distracted Jewish mother and a drama-and-opera-prone psychiatrist father.