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Arlington: The Rap
“I’m ducking gunfire daily, Check to see if one got me, But that’s just life in the hood, When I go get my puffed kashi…” (via almost everyone I know in DC). More videos by Remy.
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Iran’s Twitter revolution goes global
It’s been amazing to watch it spread. “As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media…
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Measuring the Weight of Loss
A post-romantic poet not content to wax sentimental on idealized Nature, a la Mallarmé, Andrew Michael Roberts has staked his tent in her decimated domain.
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Happy Bloomsday!
Today is the 105th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s one-day passage through the ordinary streets of Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Dubliners and Joyce-lovers around the world are celebrating the author as well as the book, with readings, races, reenactments, and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Cecil Woolf
Cecil Woolf, 82, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, is the publisher of the Bloomsbury Heritage, a series of monographs that cover a wide variety of subjects concerning the members of the Bloomsbury Group.
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THE RUMPUS ADVICE COLUMN: Insulting Questions Get Surly Responses
Sugar is hereby on vacation unless and until I hear from people whose problems reside in their hearts not their egos.
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Chris Corrigan: The Last Book I Loved, The Little Prince
I read The Little Prince with a broken heart and deep new scars from recent chest surgery. The surgery didn’t remove the cracked and sad organ from beneath my ribs, but rather cut off the two useless mounds of flesh…
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THE LONELY VOICE #6: The Rumpus Short Story Column, Death and the Dying Chekhov
The lonely voice is coming to you today from San Francisco General Hospital. I’m in the cafeteria. I come here sometimes. It’s a nice place to be distracted and the pudding is good. I’m thinking about Chekhov, or trying to,…
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Reflections on Woolf and the City 2009
Walking into the 19th annual Woolf and the City conference as a non-academic fan of Virginia Woolf can be intimidating. I was in the midst of close to 250 Woolf scholars and fans from across the globe, most of whom…
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Iran News Links
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calls for an election inquiry. A “how to” guide to tracking Iran protests with Twitter and social media. @PersianKiwi may be the world’s most important journalist right now. Gunfire from pro-government militia kills one…
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The Shock of the Old
Alexis Madrigal mentions a 2006 book that seems to be a must-read: The Shock of the Old, by David Edgerton. From the bookpage:
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Why we need newspapers: They stand against tyranny
In the 1960s and 70s, Central and South America were rife with dictatorships which used secret police, the military, right-wing death squads and tight control of the media to quash dissent and keep power. One of the most egregious of…