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We’ve Always Been Postmodern?
“And while postmodern books would, you’d think, have to be published after the modern period — in the 20th or 21st centuries — could postmodernism exist without “Tristram Shandy”? We think not.” At Jacket Copy a while ago, Carolynn Kellog…
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“What does a science fiction writer know about?”
“I can’t claim to be an authority on anything, but I can honestly say that certain matters absolutely fascinate me, and that I write about them all the time. The two basic topics which fascinate me are “What is reality?”…
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Ask a Male Comedian: Kyle Kinane
For our first installment of “Ask a Male Comedian” Kyle Kinane agreed to answer questions from Rumpus readers. Don’t like the questions? You have only yourselves to blame: Rumpus Reader: Why are female comedians so much funnier than male comedians?
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Random Media Notes
“The First Rule of J-School Is You Don’t Talk About J-School Debt” Writer Alex Grossman gets busted for impersonating Sarah Palin on Facebook. General Electric calls Bill O’Reilly report “irresponsible and maliciously false.” Internet publishers and bloggers say no to…
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The Limits of Narrative
In a post on The Guardian (UK), books writer Alison Flood writes about the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of books and how she would skip ahead to find out whether a prospective choice “led to the treasure in the…
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Guerrilla Distribution
“The glory days of independent film, when hot young directors like Steven Soderbergh and Mr. Tarantino had studio executives tangled in fierce bidding wars at Sundance and other celebrity-studded festivals, are now barely a speck in the rearview mirror. And…
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Funny Women
I have been thinking a lot about funny women. I’m going to tell you what’s good before I tell you what’s very, very bad.
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Morning Coffee
It’s day four of me filling in for Dan, and I’m starting to think he may have died. This man can probably help me with my future, provided it doesn’t involve being able to wear a hat. After all, without…
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Blogging’s Capacity for Timelessness
“There can be no argument that the blog format gives ‘now’ the pride of place; novelty leads, and the past recedes into a string of ‘older posts’ links and archives pages. But it is a mistake to think that blogs therefore…
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Recollections of a 1903 Fireman
A Journey Round my Skull doesn’t just publish wonderful things to his blog; he also tweets about wonderful things on other people’s blogs. Today he posted a link to a blog called Dreamers Rise, whose author wrote about an extraordinary…