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Found in Translation
The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu, has won the 2010 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction.
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Appropriate Sex
A clip from Appropriate Sex, a 9 minute short comedy based on the short story by Rumpus contributor Steve Almond.
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When Does Heartbreak Become a Story? (Part II)
“Even Joan Didion, who wrote one of the most beautiful books (in my small opinion) about one of the biggest life tragedies one can ever face, had to take time between the sadness and the writing. Didion’s tragedy may be…
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Morning Coffee
I am pretty sure at least one of these things will make you happy. Start your weekend off in an appropriately dark place with images of public execution in the old west. Antique camera porn. A little whimsical art: fully…
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FUNNY WOMEN (COMBO!) #18: Publishing House
Submission Guidelines by Jane Roper Dear Writer: Thank you for your interest in our publication.
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What Happened During The Blackout
Just when I thought I was unique, just as I’ve been spending the last six-odd months editing a short story about the misadventures of retail workers during a city-wide blackout (Santa Cruz, circa 2002) I read today that actually everyone…
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What Will My Facebook Say When I’m Dead?
“New online lockboxes allow you to specify beforehand who’ll get your passwords, which private Flickr photos should be purged, and what final status should be posted at Facebook, but these services are no substitute for a will. And writers and…
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Accountability in Publishing
Anyone following the fall-out over Charles Pellegrino’s Last Train From Hiroshima—here’s the definitive New York Times story—would do well to read Philip Meyer’s “Accountability When Books Make News,” first published in the Media Studies Journal in 1997. (You can read it right…
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“What if the e-Book Revolution Never Gets Here?”
“Now, there’s no question that an e-book evolution will happen. In twenty years I expect to see people reading on electronic devices half the time, and on print formats the other half. But that barely counts as radical change.” Levi…
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Movies, Briefly: I Was A Male War Bride (1949)
What a pleasure to find an old Hollywood movie whose primary conflict is the battle of its two leads to get laid. I don’t mean it in the lovey-dovey romantic ideal sort of way, I mean I Was A War…
