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“This is not a decision we made lightly.”
“Oh, hey Canada. Yeah, come on in. Have a seat. No, you won’t need to take notes or anything. This is really pretty straightforward. Here’s the thing, Canada – we’re going to have to let you go.” Frequent Rumpus contributor…
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What Tao Is Reading
Tao Lin hast posted his reading diary, including only books he has “finished or anticipate[s] finishing.” The list includes Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, Baby Hedgehogs and American Apparel Dog, and The Blue Octavo Notebooks. Do you have a book…
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Literary Fashionables: The Cultural Theorist and The Sportsman
Two hallowed New York intellectuals are The Rumpus’s next set of Literary Fashionables. Susan Sontag and George Plimpton both circled the upper tiers of Manhattan’s literary society. And while exhibiting seemingly opposing aesthetics, both Sontag and Plimpton promulgated revolutionary ideas…
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Morning Coffee
David Maisel’s epic aerial-photography (is good). NPR wants to convince you that you should be into macaroons. I’m willing to listen. A brief history of pretty much everything. Seed Magazine on bee’s past, present, and questionable future. Totally bad-ass green…
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The Blurb #14: The Land of Underwater Birds
What makes a good title? The Great Gatsby is one for the ages—but it wasn’t Fitzgerald’s idea. He wanted to call his novel Trimalchio in West Egg, which sounds like something Dr. Seuss dreamed up for The Playboy Channel.
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Free Dreadfuls
Terrific news in last Sunday’s Times of London: “MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring….Many of the downmarket books known as…
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Jonathan Keats Screens Travel Documentaries for Potted Plants
In a Wired article, Scott Thill elaborates on artist Jonathan Keats’ Strange Skies installation, in which he screens films for potted plants in New York. The plants will be exposed to travel documentaries of various European skies. Keats states that…
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“The thumbtown toad laughed so hard that she burst into fire.”
George Mendoza and Monika Beisner’s Thumbtown Toad belongs on your bookshelf next to Struwwelpeter, and the brave, childless team at Prentice Hall which published it in 1971 belongs in the Publishing Hall of Fame.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #23
CRYING ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing crying.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/15-2/21
This week: Recover from Sunday at A Valentine’s Day Post Mortem, John D’Agata reads at USF, Noise Pop invades Nightlife, and the Mission loves bikes so much it finally dedicates porn to them. Monday 2/15: Misery loves company. Drag your…