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Julie Morse
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The 15th Anniversary of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Getting sentimental about the fifteenth anniversary of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern? So are we. Check out the commemorative, The Best of McSweeney’s, a collection of the publisher’s best and brightest writing since 1998. Can’t wait? Go here to see an excerpt…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Marcy Campbell
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Marcy Campbell! Here’s an excerpt: I got my master’s when I discovered that the university was actually going to pay me to read, which is how I saw it. I like reading,…
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“What if poetry isn’t enough?” – Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange, the poet, author and playwright who is mostly known for her play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” is at it again with, “Lost in Language and Sound: Or How I Found My…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Marjorie Celona
This next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Marjorie Celona! Here’s an excerpt: Harrison asked Vincent to imagine that he was an old pony who’d been bought at auction by a woman and lived most of his life in a shed…
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Searching for Dave Chappelle
“To turn his back on Hollywood, to walk away from the spotlight because it was turning him into a man he didn’t want to be—a man without dignity—was a move that was, in a way, Chappelle’s birthright, his own unwieldy…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Sandra Gail Lambert
The next Weekly Rumpus brings you fiction from Sandra Gail Lambert! Here’s an excerpt: Running didn’t help. It just turned you into prey. Ruth Ann knew the exact moment she learned this. She had started taking a bookbinding class on…
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The GhostTweeter
Too busy and famous to tweet? Hire a ghostposter. Originally a speech-writing firm, Gotham Ghostwriters provides profession ghostposting services; covert, virtual banter for celebrities. You’re probably no longer wondering why certain personalities sound smarter on the internet then they do…
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Memorializing the Card Catalog
Sometimes it’s hard for a librarian to admit that we’ve arrived at the age of the virtual card catalog system. It’s a sentiment that’s especially true for Greenfield Community College librarian Hope Schneider who spent fourteen years sending out retired…
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The Passage of Ideas
Every day, we collectively produce millions of books’ worth of writing. Globally we send 154.6 billion emails, more than 400 million tweets, and over 1 million blog posts and around 2 million blog comments on WordPress. On Facebook, we post…
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The Plight of African Journalism
“If you say something happens in a place like Marikana [South Africa], for us to send a team of journalists to cover it directly it would be too expensive. I do think it’s a problem. When foreigners come here they…
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McSweeney’s How Music Works Contest!
After much anticipation, David Byrne’s How Music Works is finally hot off the presses in PAPERBACK! Our friends and publishers at McSweeney’s have proposed a contest for fans and readers alike, tweet or Instagram a photo of the book’s poster…
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The Death of Chick-Lit?
Are the days of chick lit finally over? The Atlantic seems to think so. There’s a new genre in town, and it’s called farm-lit. Novels about women who abandon their high-stress city lives to go live on farms and small,…