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Morning Coffee
Passive-aggressive notes. Bird’s eye view photography is pretty rad. Jason Hawkes has figured this out. The Big Picture has figured out that Jason Hawkes has figured this out. Dinosaur comics. We must have linked to this before but yesterday’s strip…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
This is one damn weird love story. This is one strange quest. This is one bizarre boat. These are a couple of strange characters we’ve got here. This book feels like a dare, as in I dare you not to…
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A Novel, A Junta, A Murdered Bishop
A book—that’s an artifact, often long, filled with deep analysis, and pages, and made of paper—by Francisco Goldman undoes an electoral campaign, triggers assassinations, and drags its author into a political minefield in Guatemala. But can the tome bring closure…
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The Future of Publishing Link List
There are a few hundred people currently writing, thinking, yapping, and occasionally (at best) in a position to do something about the future of the book industry. Most, though sadly not all, take the position that writing, and reading, will…
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The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Good news! The book blogs can tell the future, and it is only a little bit terrifying! The future, apparently, is full of digibooks, Twitter, book pirates, and “video poetry.” The Rumpus is only slightly afraid, and it promises to…
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The Rumpus Interview with Carlos Cuarón
During an assembly-line interview process last week, I sat with writer and director Carlos Cuarón to talk about his new film, Rudo y Cursi. We met up at a self-described rock-and-roll hotel suite in downtown San Francisco. With his rat’s…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview with Dan Baum
Over the past few days, ex-New Yorker staff writer Dan Baum has received a lot of attention by rehashing the details of his dismissal in 140-character Twitter missives. I spoke with Dan Baum via email about his decision to use…
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Blog-on-Blog Crime
The new “ladyblog” Double X, an offshoot of the online magazine Slate, just launched in Beta, with former Jezebel editor Jessica Grose one of the women at the helm. Oddly enough, one of the first entries is a piece called…
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I Openly Love Ayn Rand, by Elissa Bassist
[A father talking to his son]: “You’re in college now . . . I’m going to have to keep this Ayn Rand book. I’m sorry, but you’re just too old for me to not be embarrassed that you like Atlas…