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Why yes, I DO like pictures of Dubai. Pain Pack let’s you experience other’s emotional pain. Photographing e-waste. The ultimate graphic novel (in six panels). Blue whales voices dropping. What…
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The Rumpus Original Combo: Moon
Science fiction of the best sort, in which technology exists as a means of peering into the soul, and where even the darkest problems can be overcome by human ingenuity…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/1-2/7
This week: Catch the tail ends of SF SketchFest and the SF Indie Winter Music Festival, Stop by 111 Minna for a decade of local art at the opening reception…
The World Was Still There
John Haskell’s novel takes readers on a metaphysical journey through the mind of a Steve Martin-impersonator impersonator.
New Fiction from Roberto Bolaño
“I was going out with two women. That I do remember clearly. One of them was getting on a bit—she must have been about my age—and the other wasn’t much…
Gigantic Online Presents Work by Saša Stanišić
While the second print issue of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art, is only days away from its anticipated release, Gigantic has just published new and noteworthy work…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #21
OCULTO PANTALONES NUDIST COLONY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Oculto Pantalones Nudist Colony.
Katherine Westerhout: Rust Belt
You’re not supposed to look at the dying, the dead; you turn away. Oakland-based photographer Katherine Westerhout looks. Westerhout takes pictures of falling or fallen cities—Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit—focusing on sites…
Amanda F’n Palmer Goes to the Golden Globes
It might be new news or old news to you, but Amanda Palmer is engaged to Neil Gaiman, and because Coraline (based on Gaiman’s book) was nominated for best animated…
Notable New York, This Week 2/1 – 2/7
This week in New York Unsound, the avant-garde culture festival that began in Eastern Europe, debuts in the city, historian Garry Wills discusses the atomic bomb, a night with filmmaker…
Writers Remember Salinger
As we mentioned earlier this morning, Dave Eggers, arguably one of the most actively engaged and socially involved writers (almost the living antithesis of Salinger) paid tribute to Salinger for…