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Van Booy Wins Frank O’Connor Award for Short Story Collection
British writer Simon Van Booy has won “the world’s richest short story prize”, the Frank O’Connor award, for his collection Love Begins in Winter. Van Booy, who lives in New York and is also the author of The Secret Lives…
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Reprinting the Public Domain, One Book at a Time
As you may already know, Google has been spending the last seven years scanning their hearts out, digitizing more than two million books that are old enough to be part of the public domain. They turn them into searchable documents,…
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Things to Think About: Publishing Links
The Department of Justice says nay to Google’s proposed Book Search deal. Joni Evans discusses the essential tools of publishing over the decades in The New York Times‘ “When Publishing had Scents and Sounds.” The publishing business might get a…
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The New Yorker Festival Is On Its Way
The New Yorker Festival is fast approaching, and tickets are on sale now. As always, the festival, which runs from October 16-18, promises to bring together the most interesting minds in literature and the arts including Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes,…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #3
I think that’s a female grizzly, Doug. I heard somewhere that you’re supposed to expose your genitals so that she knows you’re a dominant male. I don’t know where I heard it, I just heard it, okay? I don’t care if…
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The Rumpus Interview with Trucker Desiree
“I really had nothing left in my life when I came to trucking, just the clothes on my back.”
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Morning Coffee
It turns out Virginia Woolf was a big fan of science fiction. Corpses doing it. Go on. Click. What could go wrong? Its been said that the defining characteristic of us post-gen Xers is intense whimsy. That’s why I’m linking…
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An Oral History of Bay Area Punk
I grew up in Denver and moved out to the Bay Area when I was eighteen, partially because I’d heard about this magical “Gilman” place that seemed to go against everything I was raised to believe in. Of course, once…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus books has published reviews of a novel and two short story collections.
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The Surreal Makes You Smarter
Allison Flood at the Guardian has dug up an article from the journal Psychological Science showing that reading surrealism may actually make people smarter. In the study, some subjects were given Kafka’s “A Country Doctor,” and others were given a…
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Planning Out the End
“The idea that economics will aid us in thinking through the problem of the destruction of the natural world… commits us to the assumption that our world ought to be governed and guided by technicians. It is part of the…
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Thurston Moore’s Audience: A Subjective Account of the Brooklyn Book Festival
September 13, 2009 10:37am – Walking by Book Stands Tao Lin T-shirts were dangling on hangers at the Melville House booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The T-shirts said “Tao Lin: 1983- ????” Across from Melville House was the Ugly…