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James Franco’s Face: A Subjective Account of the New Yorker Festival

Friday October 16, the New Yorker opened its annual weekend festival of readings, conversations, art tours and musical performances. This is my account of the events I attended, which included…

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Features & Reviews

A Recipe to Ruin Your Sunday

The Guardian pointed out Wednesday that every Life Magazine is now available at Google Books, and now, thanks to them, my week has been ruined. And now I’ve ruined yours!…

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Music

Authenticity And The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

“In the 1980s, arguments about the Rock Hall reflected many people’s discomfort with the insider mood of those dinners and the idea that pop music (and especially rock) could support…

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The Racist Velvet Rope

Teri Woods, a “pioneer … urban or hip-hop fiction” author, recently tried to have a party to celebrate the release of her new book Alibi in a Soho night club called…

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Features & Reviews

The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

It’s Sunday, and, as always, The Rumpus is here to round up some blogs for you. Stephen King is waiting a month after the release of his new hardback to…

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Features & Reviews

The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

It’s Sunday, which means Rumpus Books has a week’s worth of book reviews for you, plus two interviews, a conversation about the future of the Internet, and an essay on…

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Other

Welcome to Sunday

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SMALL POTATOES:
Politics

angrylittlepotatoes.com …

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Other

Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

Can you tell the difference between E. E. Cummings and a YouTube commenter? (It’s really not as hard as it looks.) Caroline Guinzio has been guest blogging at Unstressed this…

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Other

The Last Book/Poem I Loved: “The Changing Light at Sandover” by James Merrill

It took me three months to pound my way through James Merrill’s epic poem, his universe, his vision of the afterlife as told through a Ouija board in a conversation…

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Iron Chef

A jilted lover expresses her lust, hatred, and remorse through exquisite courses of caviar, duck, and tongue.

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Other

Science Saturday

In yet another example of how the real world is far weirder than most peoples’ imaginations, I give you brain-shrinking algae. NASA has an iPhone app. There are scientific questions…

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