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Bolaño, Inc.: Moya Contrasts the Myth with the Man
Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Senselessness and eight other books, has written a piece about the “construction of the ‘Bolaño myth’ in the United States” that contrasts this myth with the man he knew. Moya claims that Bolaño would probably be amused by…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #8
A HAT MY NEPHEW FOUND ON THE BUS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a hat my nephew found on the bus.
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Internal
The LA Times has posted a profile about Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott. Of course, as this is the Internet, the story doesn’t end there. Scott Timberg, the author of the profile, has posted an addendum to his piece.
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A Window’s for Looking Into
Robin Ekiss’s debut collection of poems explores the relationship between the past and the present with strength, clarity, and emotional intimacy.
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The Best Zombie Story of the Year
More than forty years after George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead made critics question the future of a culture that could produce such a thing, that future is here – and it is full of zombies. There are zombie…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/2-11/8
This week in San Francisco, the annual Dia de los Muertos procession, get Mortified at The Makeout Room, the self-proclaimed “hardest working artist in San Francisco” will be showing at Fecal Face, and a whole lot more. Monday 11/2: Celebrate…
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The Last Book I Loved: A Complicated Kindness
I ran away to Barcelona because of a girl. Also I’d been grumpy and mopey for the previous month or so, due to the whole uncertain future thing, so really the thing with the girl just kind of tipped me…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/2 – 11/8
This week in New York, Performa 09 festival of performing arts inspired by Futurist film, music and literature opens, Bomb throws a Fall Issue Launch Party, Books & Quiche Reading Series is back with Yiyun Li and Salvatore Scibona, Light…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #9
Scuba lessons are just swimming lessons but with a backpack, Doug. Since I already know how to swim and I definitely know how to wear a backpack, looks like I’m a scuba diver. “The bends?” Sounds like an old wives’…
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Morning Coffee
Look, I know we missed the boat by a couple days, but check out this sweet article on where ghosts come from. Spanish architecture porn of the week. On a similar note: beautiful avant-garde soviet era architecture. November 18th is…