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What You Think is Sad: Gabriele Basilico and San Francisco Noir
She always knew it would come to this. A screaming horde of bucknaked smutcrazed rapists banging on her glass ticket kiosk. She crossed herself and with a single prayer commended her soul to the Lord’s Everafter and consigned her flesh…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lily Burana
Lily Burana is the founding editor of Taste Of Latex, the author of stripper memoir Strip City and Western novel Try.
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Swiss Dots for Depressionistas
There is, some believe, a place where short shorts and flash fiction fall in with fashion. The uncharted literary territory of J. Peterman; Brooks Brothers by way of Borges; J.Crew jewel tones via Jelinek. This stead for despairing fashionables is…
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We Are Each Other’s Spiders
Burnt Shadows is the most admirable new novel I have read in a long time, a work of astonishing naturalism, wisdom, and grace.
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Strunk and White take it on the chin
The Elements of Style, the classic writing handbook by E.B. White and William Strunk, Jr., just turned fifty. The New York Times celebrated by posting the opinions of five “experts” on its blog about the book. All of them turn…
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“This is just how evolution designed our penised pals: they want the sweet ride, not the title.”
Boil it down and you wind up with the same stew: to thine own self be true.
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Skin Deep – The Naked People Project
The idea behind Sebastian Kempa’s latest photographic endeavor, The Naked People Project, is simple: Photograph people with their clothes on and then, with a simple click of the computer mouse, watch as their clothes disappear and transform into glorious nudity.
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Kevin Smith Talks Superman
I love a good story, and this one from Kevin Smith about the life and death of his Superman script is hilarious.
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Big Books, Little Books
Kindle, iPhone, Stanza, “media pads,” whatever. Sick of news about things you can’t afford that do things you don’t need done? Head to the Donna Seager Gallery and put your little mits and screen-numbed eyes on the dope selection of…
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A Winsome Ode to Justice
The search for the origins of handling human error is the subject of Maira Kalman’s latest post, May It Please the Court. In this installment of her monthly New York Times column And the Pursuit of Happiness, Kalman continues to…