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Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others
A few weeks ago, the literature blog HTMLGiant hosted a heated discussion about whether or not difficult modernist novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses might find a publisher in today’s literary marketplace. Of the hundreds of responses to the thread and…
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Morning Coffee
Architecture porn of the week: totally sick Singapore garden design. Bizarre police sketches. Cakehead brings you a gallery of awesome and bizarre vintage inventions. My new hero: Liu Bolin, extreme camouflage expert. We are living in the future when articles…
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R. Crumb’s Version of Genesis
Comic book genius R. Crumb has a new book coming out. This is very exciting for me. What’s even more exciting is that said book is his own personal version of Genesis. Not the band. The first book of the…
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Bright Lights, Big City and “The Shattering of the Self”
“…Jay McInerney’s 1984 publication of Bright Lights allows us excavation to an even earlier level of American self-confusion. The novel’s second-person narrative, which people found so powerfully affecting, cannot be dismissed as but a clever trick when seen in a…
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American Short Story Writers Are Taught To Do It Wrong
John Barry has a piece up at The Baltimore City Paper in which he argues that too many American short story writers are taught to try to mimic that famous last paragraph in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead.” And…
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Mark Athitakis Talks Book Blogging
“I think there’s a lot of thoughtful engagement with books on blogs—a lot of quick-hit riffing and expressions of enthusiasm, and I participate in some of that myself. That has its place—I wouldn’t do it if I think it didn’t—but…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs are full of awesome this week. You should read them. How to write to an editor: “I have given your request for evidence 23 hours of thought, the proper number of hours to come up with the…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books reviewed three novels and a collection of poems. Come read!
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SMALL POTATOES:
PalindromeSee a large scale, hand drawn version of this piece at 4 Barrel cafe, 375 Valencia Street, San Francisco Opening reception and Rumpus party Friday, October 9th, 6-8pm angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The deadline for entry into the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prizes is nearing. These are some of the most generous poetry prizes available, and they give a large number of them every year. The Rumpus interviewed Mary Rosenberg last March…
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Did You Miss?
It’s been a fascinating couple of weeks here at The Rumpus. Here’s a taste of what you might have missed. Join the conversation at The Blurb#10, especially if you’re a writer, or worse, an employer of writers. Sheera Talpaz makes…