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SMALL POTATOES:
As if I haven’t alienated enough people alreadyClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Rae Armantrout for winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection Versed. This post by Al Filreis made me send him a Facebook friend request, just so I can find out how the conversation ended. (If…
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Science Saturday
Let’s say a killer asteroid is headed toward earth and we manage to get our heads together long enough to aim a nuke at it and actually hit the thing. We might still be hosed. And assuming we can destroy…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Prayer Before Birth” by Louis MacNeice
After years of people telling me that I would love Louis MacNeice, last week I stumbled on “Prayer Before Birth”. In the poem, the notion of the undead, the nosferatu as plague-carrier, the underworld and incarnate evil are not supernatural…
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Onward Christian History! An Update
A month ago, I blogged about an attempt by the Christian fundamentalist community in Texas to change the history and social sciences curricula for K-12 textbooks. There’s been a fair amount of reporting on the story since then, most recently…
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Saturday Morning Links
Well, it’s been a hell of a Spring Break for me, and there’s still a couple of days of it left. Let’s get to it. If you’re about to go on Spring Break and you can afford to come to…
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Single Sentence Animation
Artist Vance Reeser animates a sentence from Matt Sumell’s short story “Little Things,” available in Electric Literature No.3.
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Jason Epstein on Publishing’s Future
Jason Epstein started out as an editor and publisher in a now-vanished era — his first editorial job was at Random House in 1949 — and he was a co-founder of the New York Review itself and also the Library…
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“I’d much rather be 49 than 20.”
“The reason I’m still around through all this is persistence. And the fact that I’ve always gone for myself, in that I’ve never hooked onto a trend, it was just me doing me.” Henry Rollins talks Henry Rollins.
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Jennifer Gilmore
“It’s actually quite frightening to be an author and know the business side of publishing. I imagine it’s easier to be in Iowa and not know what’s going on with your book. If the industry had stayed the same, I…
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The Rumpus Review of Shutter Island
When Scorsese makes a new film, the question is less whether it’s good than whether the decision to make it in the first place was good.