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Daniel Gumbiner

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Daniel Gumbiner is a student at UC Berkeley. He has lived in Chile and Argentina. He blogs with his brother, David, at smartwool.tumblr.com
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The Rumpus Interview with Scott McClanahan

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • May 31, 2011
McClanahan's prose is unfettered and kinetic and his stories seem like a hyper-modern iteration of local color fiction.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Miller

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • February 9, 2011
Mary Miller is the author of a chapbook of flash fiction, Less Shiny, and her debut short story collection, Big World, was published by Hobart in 2009.
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Sentence and Solas

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • October 8, 2010
If you didn’t see it this weekend, Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, wrote an astonishingly incisive op-ed about the myriad ways in which literature is a product of translation.…
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Close Reading

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • September 13, 2010
Jonah Lehrer has an article in Wired on the ways by which e-text might affect our reading processes. Lehrer begins by briefly summarizing the “neural anatomy” of how we read:…
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Happy (Early) Birthday Ray Bradbury!

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • August 20, 2010
UCLA has a number of videos up to celebrate Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday, which is this Sunday. In one of the videos Bradbury explains, unequivocally, how he made it to…
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Growing Up American

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • August 19, 2010
The Guardian’s Book Blog lauds the American coming-of-age novel and asks why the British don’t possess the same bildungsromanic aptitude.  Judy Blundell, Jandy Nelson and Simon Rich are cited as…
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“To Have a Second Lanuage is to Have a Second Soul”

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • August 16, 2010
How much does language shape our thinking capabilities?  Does it exist only as a tool to reproduce/translate thought or does it take an active role the production of thought? Lera…
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Absolutely Specific

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • August 16, 2010
This Recording has a feature on the interviews between Mel Gussaw and Harold Pinter. Certain excerpts are absurdly quotable.  For example, “MG: Do you feel that you have to guard…
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New York Alki

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • August 13, 2010
Rumpus contributor Ryan Boudinot, author of The Littlest Hitler, talks with I09’s Charlie Jane Anders about his forthcoming novel, Blueprints for the Afterlife. The novel takes place in a full-scale…
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On the Road Meets Strunk and White

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • August 10, 2010
The Great Typo Hunt chronicles the journey of two conscientious vandals, Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Hurston, as they attempt to reform our nation’s signage.  Listen to the story at Talk…
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Love and Serfdom

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • July 22, 2010
Check out Deborah Soloman’s terrific, ultra-quippy interview with the author of Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart. Shetyngart touches on the death of silence, Russia’s antiquated notions of espionage and the state of…
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In Defense of Shirley Jackson

  • Daniel Gumbiner
  • July 19, 2010
Salon’s Laura Miller attempts to contextualize the work of Shirley Jackson (her “parton saint of oddballs”) within the American canon. Jackson, most famous for her story “The Lottery” (which you…
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