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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 week, and I enjoyed this piece very much in light…
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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 between Merrill, his partner DJ, and the characters on the…
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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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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 with surprising answers, and then there’s this one. MSNBC has…
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Unthinkable Movie Remakes
John Patterson, writing in The Guardian, suggests it might be time to consider remaking/updating the Orson Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane. The obvious choice of subject, Patterson says, is media mogul Rupert Murdoch, but I like his final suggestion better: Silvio…
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Saturday Morning Links
Saturday mornings, y’all–we’re all about the linkage. The box set wars are in earnest now. AC/DC has upped the ante by including a guitar amp in its $200 box set. I’d do this if the pay were right. Hell, I’d…
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Care to Join the Conversation?
A while back, the Rumpus quietly launched a new series: Conversations about the Internet. And we hereby invite interested writers to join in.
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The Pre-existing Condition of Rape
Cirrhosis, Huntington’s Chorea, Parkinson’s Disease, and now rape: perfectly valid reasons for denial of health insurance coverage. One of these things is not like the other, and while womens’ health groups have tried to raise awareness via the web for…
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My First Kiss: An Oral History
“I have no idea what her name was. Something Polish. It was a girl at a family reunion…” Selections from answers from interviews taken by students for English 251: Interviews and Oral History class at The College of Saint Rose:
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Things to Think About: Publishing Links
Richard Nash on “The Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing” Booksellers ask the Justice Department to investigate the book price war under way between Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target. Google opponents urge court not to restrict comments on a revised book search…