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How the NYTimes Book Review selects books to review
In a post on the blog Book Publishing News, publicist Scott Lorenz distills a recent speech by New York Times Book Review Editor Barry Gewen and accounts from other sources to form a picture of how the NYTBR — probably…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column: #12 Running Backs in Love
Last week, D.H. Lawrence wasn’t mentioned by name in any sports sections, and no professional athletes cited The Rainbow in their postgame interviews. But there were intriguing baseball- and football-related stories about the line between violence and love, anger and…
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A Very Sorry Saint
John Wesley Harding & The English UK perform “A Very Sorry Saint.” JWH will be performing at The Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on October 15th along with Terra Naomi, Jason Finazzo and comedian Nato Green.
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When in Rome: DC Lit Mag Launched
The Rome Review, Washington DC’s new literary magazine, released its inaugural issue on June 27. The issue features work from Daniel Wallace, Blake Butler, Kathleen Rooney, and David Means, as well as photography from Jonathan Goley, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and…
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Zak Smith in Conversation with Anthony Lister
Anthony Lister’s paintings are hard to describe–mostly because they’re so easy to describe. You could say Lister is a graffiti-artist who does paintings of comic book characters and other pop-culture icons in spray-paint, but that doesn’t explain why they look…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Greetings, world. Blogging will be light today. Your humble Sunday editor is in Monterey celebrating the life of a friend who recently passed. But to keep you with stuff to look at until tomorrow, here’s a brief roundup of some…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books published reviews of a novel, a book of poetry, and a book about Donald Rumsfeld, as well as a survey of the stripper memoir, an interview with Sophia Raday, a remembrance of Frank McCourt, and an…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned some war poetry for today as the Afghan war rages and the official inquiry into the Iraq War begins. Joel Brouwer commemorates the 25th anniversary of the “What Is a Poet?” symposium…
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Did You Miss?
Lots of great reading on The Rumpus over the last couple of weeks. Here’s some links in case you missed them. Kelly did a fascinating rundown on the stripper memoir. Maddie Oatman interviewed members of Midwest Dilemma. Joe Cervelin considered…
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Oddest Video Game Ever?
I’ll never be mistaken for a legitimate gamer–I couldn’t figure out Defender when I was in my teenaged gaming prime, and I own the Iron Chef America game for the Wii–but I have to say that an Ulak-Tartysh video game…
