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A Chat with Zap Mama
Marie Daulne’s music reflects the story of her life. Her father, a Belgium colonialist, was killed by child rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shortly after impregnating her mother, Cyrille Daulne. After his death Cyrille emigrated to Belgium,…
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American History X-treme
A former neo-Nazi’s memoir describes a violent life in the white supremacist movement and his transformative experiences in prison.
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The Best Detail…
The best detail about the Senate parliamentarian is not that he is a mysterious figure with a question mark for a head. Or that his last interview was 22 years ago. Or that Senate Historian Donald Ritchie has only seen…
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Movies, Briefly: Octopussy (1983)
When people claim Casino Royale is a “realistic” Bond movie, they don’t mean it’s realistic in any sense that relates to the real world, because it’s not and it doesn’t. They mean it’s more realistic than 1983’s Octopussy, which makes…
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Life Graphs
HTMLGiant asks an important question: does your life suck (normal life) or blow (successful writer’s life)?
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More Jake Gillespie
Have you read The Rumpus Interview with Jake Gillespie yet? Once you do, click here to view more of his work.
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Social Media Bust
So when is that new facebook friend not really a friend? When they’re a law enforcement agent using your online info against you. Whether checking an alibi against status updates or looking at photos for signs of suspicious activity, the…
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This eBook Belongs To…?
“Think of a bookplate as a wedding ring binding the reader to the book, and vice versa. The symbolism isn’t so far apart: ownership, possession, desire. […] The digital book has no front or back covers; there is no place…
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Junot Díaz
“Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they’re running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.” The Book Bench talks with…
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Morning Coffee
A little political guerrilla satire to start off your Tuesday: the first corporate candidate. I don’t understand the sudden influx in vintage match boxes online, but I am in favor of it. The world’s first building with built-in wind turbines…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jake Gillespie
“I used to always think of paintings as big large novels. And then all of these little drawings that I’ve been making, I think of them more as a bunch of poems equaling a chapbook or maybe a bunch of…