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Morning Coffee
MOMA has acquired the @ symbol. Way to go MOMA. Another reason why India is going to take over the world. Super rad photographs of childhood fantasies. Look, I’m not going to lie to you, it’s been a slow day,…
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Investigations into Politics and Punk: The Photography of Mark Murrmann
I’ve just started walking with photographer Mark Murrmann down Polk Street in San Francisco, and already he’s busted out his camera and started snapping shots of a street construction project. For Murrmann, no scene is too mundane to make memorable.
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ORBooks Walk Away From Amazon
“For every e-mail we get querying why our books are not available on Amazon, we get another saying how much our new approach is appreciated.” ORBooks has pulled its publications from Amazon.com, stating that doing business with the online retailer…
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Straight Outta Nebraska
In Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.
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Photos of McQueen
While we’re not big on celebrity here at the Rumpus, we did link to these previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe when LIFE made them public this past summer. So we’d be remiss not to do the same with these…
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Words After Death
“I am against the posthumous publishing of a late author’s work unless it can be proven without a doubt that posthumous publication is the express wish of the author. If it can’t be proven, then the default action should be…
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“Another of those long and agonising breakdowns.”
“For some days, of course, we hoped against hope that she had wandered crazily away and might be discovered in a barn or a village shop. But by now all hope is abandoned.” An archive, made public for the first…
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Is Google Just the Beginning?
“A new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that a growing number of U.S. companies feel unwelcome in China—thirty-eight per cent, up from twenty-three per cent in 2008—the highest level of dissatisfaction recorded in the four…
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Godzilla Haiku: Why Less is More
At first I was excited about this. Combine two Japanese cultural traditions — contemplative poetic exercise and atomic age monster from the deep — and you get humor and existential melancholy, like so: