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Literary Fashionables: The Performing Artist and The Humanitarian
Fashion Week in New York has come to a close. And so therefore must our week-long run of literary fashionables. We end our series with The Performing Artist and The Humanitarian. Miranda July and Dave Eggers are both noted for…
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Morning Coffee
Start your weekend off with some fine Victorian era photographs of Japan. The Guardian UK takes a look at unreliable narrators. Jeez, stop talking about the upcoming 2010 Shanghai World Expo, move on man, 2012’s will be way radder. Long…
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The Rumpus Interview with Gary Young
“We write because we can’t not write. We want to make music out of our breath; we want to be under the power of an art that toys with us and could destroy us, but which allows us to get…
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“The Red Ribbon”
“Artist Donna K. hallucinates a sentence from author Aimee Bender’s ‘The Red Ribbon,’” which appears in Electric Literature No. 3.
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Anarchist Book Gets a Boost From Beck
“But even before the official pub date, The Coming Insurrection benefited from an ‘endorsement’ from Glenn Beck. As part of a seven-minute rant on Fox News in July, he said, ‘I am not calling for a ban on this book.…
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Slouching Towards Baltimore
Geoffrey Becker’s second novel races across the country in the company of “spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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The Boring, Unplayful, Unoriginal Global Novel
“What are the consequences for literature? From the moment an author perceives his ultimate audience as international rather than national, the nature of his writing is bound to change. In particular one notes a tendency to remove obstacles to international…
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Should Dave Eggers Edit The Paris Review?
“Whimsical, highly aestheticized, conspicuously casual, reverent of childhood and its signifiers, bound by the dialectic of irony and sincerity, the style of McSweeney’s has become the style of post-post-Modernism. “It is No One Belongs Here More Than You and Everything…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #14: Juice
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Juice Today the jury voted to “acquit” though the way the word leapt forth was the way a Southern gentleman cedes a game in frustration
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BookPhone
Here in the U.S. of A. “the focus for the future of e-reading has been primarily on the larger format, dedicated e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad.” But what about in other parts of the world, “where…
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Jillian Lauren: The Last Book I Loved, Blonde
My framed, original Marilyn calendar has been glaring at me from my den wall ever since I finished Joyce Carol Oates’ Blonde. When I look at it now, I feel as if I was there when it was shot. I’m not…