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Gretchen Schrafft: The Last Book I Loved, Stranger Things Happen
Far too many nights of my childhood were spent huddled under the covers, straining to read the pages before me with the weak aid of a flashlight. I punished my…
Honest People Just Can’t Help It
Good news! Honesty, it turns out, may not be something that we can control. In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists Joshua Greene…
J.M. Coetzee Reviews Poetry Anthology … in Math Journal
“Just as there are poets who will wrestle for months to get an insight down on paper in its most jewel-like form, because to them the truth of the poem…
Poet and Drunken Boat Editor Meets NYPD
Ravi Shankar, the founding editor of Drunken Boat, has an opinion piece in the Hartford Courant about a particularly terrible run-in with the NYPD in which he overheard his arresting…
The Sunday Rumpus Books Supplement
This week, Rumpus books published a review of a story collection by Greg Gerke, an interview with Benjamin Anastas, a Rumpus Reprint by our own Stephen Elliott, and an exclusive…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
This week, the book blogs got technology, and it turns out they’re not so sure whether they like it. Below, see them wrestle with television invading their books, the Kindle,…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Charles Bernstein tells us that the University of Alabama Press is having a recession sale on many of the titles in their Modern and Contemporary Poetics series. (Via Culture Industry)…