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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” for his role in killing 20% of the Cambodian population.…
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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.
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The Lost Tribes of New York City
Awesome urban anthropologists Andy & Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.
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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),
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A Reading List as Suggested Posthumously by David Foster Wallace
Compiled from “The Unfinished” by D. T. Max.
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Morning Coffee
Caleb Charland’s photographs of scientific curiosity. Paraplegic man is bitten by a spider, regains the use of his legs, and is arrested for domestic abuse. Using Google Maps to determine the exact opposite side of the globe. (via deathwishthree) Executives…
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A Jittery Spoonful of Surrealism
Monkeybicycle.net is the punchy literary magazine edited by Steven Seighman and Eric Spitznagel. The mag publishes writers like Tao Lin and Ryan Boudinot, and the piece on the site’s main page, “Wish” by Mike Valente, is representative of Monkeybicycle’s aesthetic.…
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Rock-Arrrrs!
From the Times (London) archive blog, this 1967 delight on offshore pirate rock stations:
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Whence the Banjo? The Rumpus Interview with Béla Fleck and Sascha Paladino
Throw Down Your Heart, the new documentary by banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and his filmmaker brother Sascha Paladino, follows Fleck on a musical heritage tour of Africa.
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Landscapes with a corpse
Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru invited actresses and models to reveal their fantasies about a perfect death, the circumstances, location, and designer they’d like to be wearing. the results, entitled “Landscapes With a Corpse,” are, rather than violent, filmic, elegant, and…