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THE LONELY VOICE #7, The Rumpus Short Story Column: My Son the Murderer
In honor of Governor Mark Sanford and Michael Jackson’s (bless his Indiana soul) favorite holiday, today’s Lonely Voice is devoted to dads, interesting, fascinating, All-American dads…
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Julie Greicius: The Last Book(s) I Loved, The Lost City of Z and All the Names
Years ago, when I was an archaeologist, I learned my favorite concept in the broader field of anthropology, or any field for that matter: “imperialist nostalgia.” It’s the yearning we feel for something we ourselves have conquered or destroyed, a…
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Counterfeit Smokes
“On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in an uneasy industrial transition. Faded advertisements line the downtown streets, where motorcyclists wearing bamboo-frond hats vie for paying passengers in a riot of honking. A cheerful red banner…
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Sunset Rubdown
It seems entirely unfair to label Sunset Rubdown a side project. The band, the brainchild of Wolf Parade co-founder Spencer Krug, began as a series of lo-fi recordings Krug produced and recorded by his lonesome and which then morphed into…
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Conan the Barbarian: an Appreciation. Seriously.
I adore Conan the Barbarian. For years I’ve been telling people that my favorite movie is 8½, say, or On the Waterfront, but it’s time for me to stop lying to myself and to my friends.
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Morning Coffee
It sure is hot these days. Wired on the personhood of whales. A famous person has died. DJs buy own music using stolen cards. The coolest bridge in the entire world: the Falkirk Wheel. IFC on the greatest movie trailers…
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Gladwell Skewers Free
“In the middle of laying out what he sees as the new business model of the digital age Anderson is forced to admit that one of his main case studies, YouTube, ‘has so far failed to make any money for…
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Long Interview With Murakami Translated into English
The Japanese publication Yomiuri Shimbun recently published, in English, a long two-part interview with Haruki Murakami, about his most recent novel, 1Q84, the complete text of which has already sold about 670,000 copies in Japan. A full summary of the…
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Evening Cocktail
A word of explanation: because the Morning starts with Coffee, the Evening starts with a Cocktail, served promptly at half-past six by your attentive host. You can imagine the cocktail as being non-alcoholic, if you prefer; but if you choose…
