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Bolaño’s Translator in San Francisco Tomorrow Night
Today the Center for the Art of Translation held one of two events in San Francisco featuring Natasha Wimmer, translator of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and 2666. At today’s event, Wimmer made some fascinating introductory remarks about translating Bolaño (of…
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Ordinary Injustice By Amy Bach
“‘Ordinary injustice results,’ Bach writes, ‘when a community of legal professionals becomes so accustomed to a pattern of lapses that they can no longer see their role in them.’ She cites the well-known case of the sleeping lawyer: Joe Frank…
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More Than Just Juliet Naked
The guys over at largehearted boy are running a contest inspired by the many films based on Nick Hornby’s novels. All you need to do to enter is let them know your favorite book to film adaptation. The winner of…
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“To briefly summarize a vast, complex literature…”
“…prolonged and extreme stress inhibits the biological processes believed to support memory in the brain.” In other words, science also says that torture yields unreliable information.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Two Kinds of Decay
…these hot coals of her story burned my hands as I tried to hold them.
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Post-Young: The Junky List (or the Incredible Weirdness of Not Being Dead)
At seventeen, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes. I never actually thought I’d make it.
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Invstigations into Voice: Robert Lepage’s Lipsynch
A woman who can’t speak leans her bandaged head towards a microphone and hums. After recording a live loop, she plays it back and hums again–this time a little differently. She does this again and again, layering sound over sound,…
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The Price of Non-Profit Press
Saying the word “journalism” these days is like openly inviting those around you to either deliver a lecture on the evils of technology, pontificate about the end of the written word, or expound on their emotional attachment to The New…
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Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway
Zoey Holloway’s background forced her to reckon with what it is to be “normal,” and she found home in the sex industry.
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Morning Coffee
My coworker wants me to drop an F-Bomb. Photographers talk about their hardest earned shots. way rad. The people of Spain understand who deserves memorializing: Almodovar’s monument. Have you heard about the Conservative Bible Project? You probably have. Sorry! Photographing…
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The Book of William, Reviewed
The Book of William — the new book chronicling the fortunes of Shakespeare’s First Folio, by regular Rumpus contributor Paul Collins — gets a nice brief writeup in the “Nonfiction Chronicle” feature of the NYT Sunday Book Review: “Part antiquarian-book primer,…