The Last Book I Loved: Runaway
I came late to the Alice Munro party but now that I’m here I’m planted and staying. This book floored me—the first story, yes, good, interesting, intriguing, but it was…
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Department of Eagles – No One Does It Like You
Via Stu at Chunnel.tv: “This video, for the Department of Eagles track “No One Does It Like You” premiered at the MoMA as part of the museum’s ongoing PopRally series.…
My Love, My Cephalopod
Barbados-based graphic novelist and artist Barnaby Ward has introduced a new series of prints featuring women and sea creatures.
Reuben Margolin’s Kinetic Wave Sculptures
“Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse,…
Swinging Modern Sounds #9: The Means of Production
Makers and consumers of music, there is no other conclusion but that the future of the medium lies in your hands.
Moved by Maira Kalman
In Maira Kalman’s latest post, So Moved, a paean to democracy for her illustrated New York Times blog, “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” she gets if not at the heart…
Morning Coffee
Waking Vixen on the parellels between sex worker activism and youth activism. (via $pread) The end of Alternadad; Neal Pollack’s final post on Parents.com. Khmer Rouge defendant expresses “heartfelt sorrow”…
Jeffrey Rotter and the Politics of Paranoia
Jeffrey Rotter’s debut novel The Unknown Knowns concerns a pasty comic book collector whose inability to distinguish between the real and the fantastic leads to terrible consequences.
The Lost Tribes of New York City
Awesome urban anthropologists Andy & Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.
Notes and Errata*: A Companion Guide to “The Unfinished”
*The Rumpus presents endnotes (and some additions and/or digressions) w/r/t “The Unfinished” by D. T. Max (The New Yorker, Mar. 9, 2009),