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“A Composite of Four Interviews”
“This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words…
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Nightmare Trails Lead to Literacy
Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, whose ongoing project Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint we covered here, has decided to create a side project to help raise money for Proliteracy Detroit, a non-profit that is the largest…
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Servers vs. Chainsaws
“The carbon footprint of data center server farms — roughly equal to that of paper mills today — is set to double in the next five years. And those server farms are often powered by coal, which tends to be…
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The History of Facebook
Facebook is the largest, fastest growing social site on the web, and yet its concept started in a college dorm room, and was (in part) modeled after one. Charles Peterson’s essay for The New York Review of Books, “In the…
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New Yorkers in Poets & Writers
The March/April Poets & Writers has a couple of great pieces on some New Yorkers to make note of. An article on writer Sam Lipsyte, whose third novel, The Ask, is being published this month by FSG; and a conversation…
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Morning Coffee
The Japanese are better at solar power than the rest of us. Tokujin Yoshioka’s rainbow church. Inhabitat brings you the book cell (thank you for this). Why yes, I would like to look at your collection of matchbooks.
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The Rumpus Review of The Most Dangerous Man in America
On June 13th, 1971, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the New York Times began to publish excerpts of an internal Pentagon document that detailed the top-secret history of US-Vietnam relations from 1945 to 1967.
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Recording Hunter
“It was a sound person’s nightmare/fantasy: squawking peacocks, refrigerator motors, thunderstorms, bug zappers, ice machines, phone calls from people in prison, seemingly random bloodcurdling screams, and the general din of vice.” In September 2002 Michael Wiese spent “a night at Hunter S.…
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Camo Cupcakes
Dear Marketing Assholes, We here at The Rumpus are pretty damn sick of things like the Dodge Super Bowl commercial (cleverly spoofed here), or any “modern men are emasculated” ad campaigns and/or business models. So believe us when we say,…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Tape Deck Mountain Song: “Ghost Colony” [Tape Deck Mountain is playing tonight at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco as part of the Noise Pop Festival.]