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Mainstream K. Goes to the Movies: Marley and Me
For my first foray into reporting from the Mainstream, I decided to investigate Marley and Me. Obvious choice. The movie was number one at the box office throughout the entire holiday season, and has made about $120 million so far.…
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When Legal Matters Inhibit Good Journalism
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger dives into the complicated issues that arise when newspapers attempt to unpack the most complicated topics.
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MAINSTREAM K.: A New Rumpus Blog About Pop Culture
Hi. I’m Mainstream K. It has come to my attention that my favorite new magazine, the Rumpus, has a healthy paranoia of the Mainstream. (Because Steve treats it like a country to be invaded, I am capitalizing the term.) As…
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Literary Sports Links By Brian Schwartz
You might think that Terrell Owens, the star wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, would be a bit leery of the publishing business. After all, this is the man who complained about being misquoted in his own autobiography. But Owens…
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The Rumpus Long Interview with Steven Soderbergh
In this Rumpus original, Steven Soderbergh talks to Stephen Elliott and Scott Hutchins about his shaken faith in the power of film, what he has in common with Fidel Castro, and how nothing will ever be solved in the Middle…
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Poetic Lives Online: Random Poetry Links by Brian Spears
The inaugural poem is sucking up a lot of the oxygen in the poetry world for now, and with good reason. An inaugural poem is even rarer than the Olympics, and gives poets the chance to really get their gripe…
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Che Debates Rage On
With the first half of the five-hour epic still in limited release, Steven Soderbergh’s Che film is already fomenting great debate on the Web.
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A (Not- comprehensive) List of Books That Changed The World
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world by Dan Koeppel How William Shatner Changed the World by William Shatner
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Janet Malcolm on a Small Body of Early Twentieth Century Fiction
Janet Malcolm reaches into the archives of her childhood and discusses a hardly-known American novelist in an essay from the New York Review of Books. Malcolm reviews
