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A Vestige Stirred By Light
The Next Settlement has a rock-solid American quality that compares favorably to William Carlos Williams. Think Plymouth and ocean waves constantly changing, hypnotic in part because of the mysteries beneath.
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The Best Rumpus Video Interruptions According to Isaac Fitzgerald
Today’s video interruption, in my humble opinion, is one of the best we’ve ever run. It involves a bear, a cardboard cutout, a papier-mâché mask, and a local Fox News reporter who is either a viral video genius or lost…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #22
Crazily enough, darling, I think you’re doing what you need to do.
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In the Art Rags
At BushwickBK.com, Mimi Luse reports on a one-night-only multimedia Lil’ Wayne-related show, curated by Audrey Berman and Pete Deevakul. With Claude Léveque and Bruce Nauman squaring off at the Venice Biennale, Studio Von Birken’s Louis Vuitton-meets-Lil’-Wayne parody is as potent…
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The Adderall Diaries Page
updated September 27 The Adderall Diaries Page Has Moved. CLICK HERE FOR THE UP-TO-DATE ADDERALL DIARIES PAGE. ** For media questions about The Adderall Diaries contact Erin Kottke: kottke AT graywolfpress.org. For Stephen Elliott’s bio go here. NEW: An interview…
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Writing the Imaginary Novel
With the advent of a great novel comes a new and irrevocable universe its author has forged. Even the most minuscule detail imagined–a street name, a painting, a work of fiction–becomes, for a number of pages, a reality. Fiction writers…
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“Everything Looks Different Today”
While there are The Last Book(s) I Loved, there are also The Books I Have Always Loved, among them “A Giacometti Portrait,” written by James Lord in 1965.
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Trunk Full of Bloomsbury Letters to Be Auctioned
What is believed to maybe be the last significant trunkload of Bloomsbury letters is about to be auctioned off on September 3rd. The collection, containing about 700 letters were all sent to Helen Anrep, a friend and supporter of many…
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Morning Coffee
On football and independent bookselling. Bolivian salt flats, way more interesting than it sounds! The evolutionary benefits of chronic depression. Life on mars? probably! The film version of the Wizard of Oz turns 70 this year, some dudes want to…
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Attention Spans are Not the Problem
A few weeks ago, I argued that the Internet age was uniquely well suited to selling short story collections. A few commenters did not agree with what seemed to be implicit in my argument: the idea that the “short attention…