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Morning Coffee
Propeller Mag has been collecting the various terrible covers for Karel Capek‘s super great War With the Newts. An affront to human decency: proper nouns to be allowed in Scrabble. Fascinating lost turn of the century female sex study. Behold…
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The Rumpus Review of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
My name is Jeff and I’m an addict. My drug of choice: Swedish detective fiction.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/5-4/11
This week, get your literature on at Mission-famous events by Quiet Lightning, Sister Spit, and Literary Death Match, celebrate all things female at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, party for civil rights at the 10th annual César Chávez Day…
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Assorted Poems
Susan Wheeler manages to navigate a wide terrain of both content and form while maintaining the interconnectedness of one of the less lame concept albums ever produced.
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Rumpus contributor Steve Almond‘s fantastic new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, is now available for pre-order. Bonus? The book comes with a truly bitchin’ soundtrack. Need more? Publishers Weekly says, “Almond deftly straddles the line between intellectual and…
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Fabricated
In a truly modern media scandal, Tommaso Debenedetti (of the esteemed Italian Debenedetti) literary family has been publishing fake interviews in Il Piccolo magazine with the likes of Phillip Roth, John Grisham, and Gore Vidal. Contacting many of Debenedetti’s subjects…
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What They Still Carry
Susan Mullally is a photographer in Texas. Among other things, she takes pictures of homeless people who congregate underneath an Interstate 35 bridge in Waco. The portraits are of the people, rootless for various reasons, and the things they still…
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Bonnie B. Lee: The Last Book I Loved, Shadow Country
People get sick of hearing the same story over and over again. I assume it’s why healthy couples split off from each other at cocktail parties. Peter Matthiessen has not only told the story of Edgar Watson at least four…
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Greetings from 1896
There’s no way to embed it here, alas, but the Times of London has video of the newly discovered 1896 film that appears to be Australia’s first movie: “Patineur Grotesque shows a bearded man, dressed in a top hat and smoking a…