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Hans Kulla-Mader
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Things Are Still Falling Apart
Chinua Achebe was briefly interviewed in NYT Magazine last week. In the interview he talks about current Nigerian politics, focusing on the weakness of the Nigerian Acting President, Good Luck Jonathan, who “suddenly doesn’t seem to bring good luck.” Click…
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THE BOOKOPTICON
“To become a literary star, having talent helps, but so does carving out a place in the tangled, incestuous web of the publishing world. Our interactive field guide illustrates how 10 young authors with potential best-sellers coming out this Spring…
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I Think, Therefore I Am Back In Business
In what The New York Times‘ Patricia Cohen writes is “the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents[…] vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician.” Before the publication of…
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“Unoriginal Poetry Based on Junk”
D.A. Powell wrote – a few years ago now – a column for The Poetry Foundation in which he dabbles with the idea of street poetry (think along the lines of the tape poetry of Elvis Christ). Powell’s article was…
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A Book, A Library, A Murder
Rumpus contributor Craig Fehrman has an article running over at The Hartford Advocate about the controversy surrounding Brain McDonald’s In The Middle of the Night. McDonald’s book is a true crime novel about a terrible murder that occurred in the town of…
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Alice, 106
At 106 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is profiled in Haaretz. She is a musician, Holocaust survivor, and is also said to be the last living acquaintance of Kafka.
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“Uhhh… well, Gerard does all my paintings.”
Our chums over at HTMLGIANT have blown the soot off an interview with Andy Warhol conducted by the Bay Times in 1965. In it, they discuss the difference between cutting one or two mushrooms (and the time the cuts take),…
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The Egg Came First
The next time you crack an egg, either over the presumably safe stove in your cozy sublet kitchen, or with one of the (most-likely three) prongs of your smudged fork into the bubbled yoke of some over-easy-eggs at the neighborhood…
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Blinded By the… Glaucoma
“There’s been a paradigm shift,” Ms. Levent continued. “People are starting to accept the fact that art and imagery are mental and not visual” and that “the heart of the creative work has nothing to do with sight. Artists’ choices…
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Raymond Carver: Behind the Prose
In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Stephen King has written a review of Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka. King begins with a summation of Carver’s semi-amazing alcoholism and then moves on to a dissection of…
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What About All That Pornography?
“People want peace, and when given a voice, they’ll work tirelessly for it,” said Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson. “In the short term, a Twitter account may be no match for an AK-47, but in the long term the keyboard is mightier…
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Joyland (It’s Real!)
Joyland, the literary magazine/website that’s “a hub for short fiction,” has opened up a new tab on their website for San Francisco. So for all you SF based writer types: keep in mind that Joyland is looking for submissions.