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Random Media Notes
Rupert Murdoch is pounding the paid content drum again. Is CBS attempting to erase Dan Rather? “HuffPo Appoints New President And CRO” New York and Fortune both put pot front and center. Dan Brown’s The Lost Symobl breaks one-day sales…
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Honest Art: A One Question Interview with Peter Squires
“I am, for better or worse, a bit of an over-sharer who tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, so for me songs come more naturally (much to the chagrin of my exes).”
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Morning Coffee
This is sad, but it is also important: friendship. Normandy: Then and Now by French historian Patrick Elie. (via Metafilter) Borrowing something? Lending something? This might come in handy. Why would someone put salt on ice cream? Because. (Also, try…
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The Ultimate Gateway Drug to Life on the Right
At the New Republic, there’s an amazing review of a new Ayn Rand biography by Jonathan Chait that actually explains everything you need to know about the American right. An infatuation with Rand’s works is something of a rite of…
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Significant Objects
Significant Objects marries writing with eBay. For example, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott describes his Hawaiian Utensils here. And you can bid on them here. All the money goes to the author.
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Luke Butler: Captain!
Friday night I walked up the crowded and sweaty streets near Union Square to Silverman Gallery for the opening of Captain!, new paintings and collages by Luke Butler. Butler deals in masculine icons of the sixties and seventies—dead presidents and…
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Eisie Shoots Papa
“In 1952, LIFE sent legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt to Cuba to shoot author Ernest Hemingway. The magazine needed photos to run alongside a new novella that would run in LIFE before it was published in book format. That book was…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #15: The Belgian Chocolate Training Regimen
The U.S. Open tennis tournament came to a close Monday night when a very tall Argentine with many, many names beat the heavily favored Roger Federer in a marathon five-set match.
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Life Underwater
The heroine of Nicola Keegan’s debut novel is an Olympic athlete who tries to swim against the current of her tragic family life.
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Are you a Lonely Writer? Meet The Owls.
Writers are always lamenting the lonely journey of being in a room by oneself armed with just words and coffee. Other artists seem to enjoy the benefits of collaboration, why not us? Enter The Owls, a self-described “site for collaborative…
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Out of Exile
Today we have an interview with Craig Walzer, editor of the Voice of Witness book Out of Exile: Narratives From the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan. Craig discusses how he became involved in the project, his experiences in Sudan,…