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Caroline Kangas
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Flood the Art Market: Artists Helping Artists Affected by Hurricane Sandy
After Hurricane Sandy, many artists lost space, supplies, and, worst of all, irreplaceable artwork. Flood the Art Market is hosting an exhibit December 6 – 9, with a silent auction and Flood Party on December 8 during Art Basel Miami Beach at…
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Police Log Comics: The Book!
Rumpus contributor Owen Cook’s Police Log Comics will be coming out soon in book form. The book is a 34 page black and white, edition of 200 with a hand colored cover. Here’s the trailer which features strobe and is not recommended for those with a…
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Method Actors
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” Easy enough for E. B. White to say, but how do you schedule out time in a day? Brain Pickings has…
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Status Updates are the New Democratic Process
Who knew legalese could go viral? BuzzFeed explains how, technically, that privacy statement everyone has been posting on Facebook accomplishes nothing legally. Herein lies the rub: you should still post it!
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Thanksgiving in Brooklyn
Feeling nostalgic for full bellies and tryptophan induced comas? Jon Cotner walked around Brooklyn and asked residents for their Thanksgiving food traditions. Turns out it’s not just turkey and cranberry sauce.
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“1233. I was happy until I was actually happy at which point I wasn’t happy.”
The Millions muses on translation via Paul Legault’s The Emily Dickinson Reader and the magazine Telephone Journal. Both platforms have created English-to-English translations of classic pieces, through reinventions of childhood games and a format similar to SparkNotes. But the best response…
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Works in Progress
No matter where technology is now, it feels good to see a tangible thought process–edited, erased, written over, scratched out, or even completed. Artist Alejandro Guijarro’s current show documents the blackboards of quantum mechanics calculations in various stages of progress.…
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David Foster Wallace as Street Art
“Well,” he said. “If Che Guevara means ‘good looking, punky rebellion,’ then I guess David Foster Wallace means ‘good looking, rebellious bookishness.’” Tom Dibblee at Trop tells of his encounter with a Che Guevara styled stencil of David Foster Wallace.…
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Google is a poet. Does it know it?
Started on November 4th 2012, Google Poetics is a tumblr dedicated to unveiling the works coauthored by the world in Google’s search box. For example, when you begin to type “i am ve” and Google suggests places these letters have led…
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Requited love for Brain Pickings
Brain Pickings continues the conversation on Kurt Vonnegut. It all started with the recent publication of We are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works followed by our interview with Vonnegut’s daughter Nanette. In ongoing musings on authors in love,…
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A Postcard from David Foster Wallace
In the current age of Twitter and Facebook, some authors seem just one click away–a kind of celebrity that is still accessible to the common fan. Frank Cassese tells a story in Guernica about when he received a postcard from David…
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BOMBlog Interview with poet Dean Young
Described as covering “freely floating topics,” the BOMBlog interview with Dean Young disproves discontinuity within its first few moments: “Now is always unprecedented and sudden.” Young talks about his writing process in phrasing that’s as poetic and philosophical as the poems themselves. He also discusses…