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Sunday Iran News Links
The Iranian government arrests over 100 opposition leaders. It looks like this might get really, really violent. Talking Points Memo has a photo gallery of what’s happening. After all other forms of communication are cut, there are reports of Twitter-organized rooftop…
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Being a Woman Before Feminism
Bookslut came across this hilarious and somewhat brilliant essay by Lynn Barber from last December in which she talks about what it was like to come of age before feminism: “We had no sex education. We had a lesson on reproduction in…
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In Israel, Literary Authors Report the News
Last Wednesday, in honor of Hebrew Book Week, the Israeli daily Haaretz sent its journalists home one day and brought in a bunch of literary authors to report the news. Apparently, it worked brilliantly. The weather report was a poem about summer.…
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Punk Rock Explained
I have an admission to make. I’m one of those people who changes the subject whenever punk rock comes up. Don’t get me wrong. I like the music. But I refuse to memorize the name of the Sex Pistols’ first bassist,…
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Is Your Novel Autobiographical?
Academics spend their careers studying how autobiographical novels are. Readers spend hours obsessing over it. But in a brief interview with The New Yorker’s Book Bench, Aleksandar Hemon may have answered the age old question about whether his novel is…
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The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Sometimes, the book blogs seem resigned to the idea that we’re entering some terrible dystopia, shaking their heads sadly as the businesspeople in charge douse the future in gasoline and dance around with a matchbook in their mouths. No longer.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Summer is coming. What will you be reading? Will it be that Henry James novel you’ve meant to read since 1987 or that book with the vampire-zombies with tantalizing unmentionables?
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Jeremy Hatch
Rumpus contributor Michael Berger only just learned about Harold Norse, on June 8th; sadly, that was the day Norse died. Here’s a tribute page, and a page where Glenn Ingersoll takes off on a Norse poem. Mark Doty is spending…
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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Actually one of the best versions I’ve ever heard.
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Naked People with Snakes
The Believer this month has a really good interview with designer / painter / comic arts legend Gary Panter — best known as the guy who did the sets for Pee-wee’s Playhouse, somewhat less well-known for his Jimbo comics, and…