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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The New Haven Review has an interview with David Orr, including Orr’s take on the spitting match between him and Dana Goodyear a couple of years ago. Poetry is on the radio again, thanks to WSUM. You can also listen…
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Did You Miss?
It was a good week for us here at The Rumpus. Ryan Boudinot reminisced about Spinal Tap, Peter Orner told us we are all Lizzie Borden, Stephen Elliott gave us the latest installment in An Oral History of Myself, and…
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You’re Looking at the Answer
I can save you some time if you’re thinking of going to this panel at the BEA today. We’re the future of book reviewing–or at least part of it. We do a lot of that around here, and not just…
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Yes, But Do They Have Anything To Say
Dr. Wolfgang Enard, head of a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, announced that genetically engineered mice who have had their FOXP2 gene swapped out for a human one (this gene is…
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Young Cons
Parody or serious statement of conservative principles? You decide. Favorite moment for me is the attempt to rhyme “merchant” with “restaurant.”
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Watch How We’ve Changed the World
This series of very short videos compiled from images posted on NASA’s Earth Observatory, are shocking, and a little terrifying. See an artificial archipelago shaped like a palm tree appear off the coast of Dubai; watch Lake Powell and the…
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Send Them to Sudan
Longtime 826 Valencia volunteers Nicki and Ryan Moore are ready and willing to travel to Sudan this summer to assist in the opening of a new secondary school in Marial Bai, Sudan, but they need your help! The Valentino Achak…
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Saturday Morning Links
When I get more coffee in me, you’ll get more witticisms out of me. No disrespect. A clash of the titans occurred at Book Expo America–Slog The Stranger’s Paul Constant met up with our own Stephen Elliott. DRM programs can…
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Sex With Ducks
Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci respond to Pat Robertson’s quote that legalizing gay marriage would lead to legalizing sex with ducks. It is a good response. [For more videos from the duo click here.]
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Do Not Deny Me
The stories in Do Not Deny Me, Jean Thompson’s new collection, are concerned with main characters whose lives are scraped bare, who live in a world flattened by boredom and limitation.
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BEA Breakdown: What’s Going On and Where
BookExpo America is back in New York at the Jacob Javits Center with a show, conference and special events. What’s nice about Book Expo is that all the booksellers come to town, the bookstore owners and employees from across the…