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Hans Kulla-Mader
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The Caged Bird Speaks
The Guardian has a pleasant, long profile of Maya Angelou running in which she proclaims such niceties as “I’m fine as wine in summertime.” The profile covers many topics: giving a brief history of her career, the whole Hilary versus…
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Cormac’s Pretty Interview
The Wall Street Journal‘s John Jurgensen has a wonderful interview with Cormac McCarthy up on their website. In it, they gab about the difference between movies and books, which pertains to the new movie adaptation of McCarthy’s book The Road,…
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A Poet’s Hilly Jaunts
San Franciscan essayist and poet W.S. Di Piero has written an poetical rhythmic essay about his jaunts throughout this mounded metropolis a great many of us call home. In it, he writes:
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Help Save Darfur, Read
Rutgers University Press has published the book Dedicated To The People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope which includes a smattering of notable authors such as the late Frank McCourt, Jane Smiley and frequent Rumpus contributor Steve Almond.…
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Serialization, Part 1.
Shya Scanlon has written an essay for The Faster Times entitled “Stay Tuned: on the Future of Web Serialization.” The essay is about the different types of literary serialization Scalon has noticed on the net. Though Scalon admits that it…
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Emails From Gitmo, Read With a Drawl
At the website for the PEN American Center they’ve posted the audio and a transcription of Jonathan Ames reading FBI emails from Guantanamo Bay. There is something strangely enlightening about Ames’ drone. It’s almost judgement-less, allowing the listener to listen…
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This Stanza Isn’t Alike
Over at FLATMANCROOKED, Aaron Davidson writes about his pleasing experience using Stanza: an iPhone application used primarily for reading books. Specifically, Davidson muses upon his reading of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, and comments upon how strangely succinct of a…
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What the Nobel Prize Does for Small Publishers
Over at The Millions, C. Max Magee has written an article about what being awarded the Nobel Prize does for a book and its publisher from an American perspective. Being that American literature is rarely rewarded the prestigious prize, Magee…
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A Kind Defense of the Kindle
Stephen Marche has an article in the Wall Street Journal about how, as of now, “the Kindle 2 will become the first e-reader available globally. The only other events as important to the history of the book are the birth…
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Books, Guns, and Brains
Over at Mind Hacks they’ve got a post running called “A brain signature for literacy.” It’s covering a neuroscience study done that shows “how the structure of the brain changes as illiterate adults learn to read and write.” What’s fascinating…
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Achebe Fights Darkness
Over at NPR is an interview with Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart. In the article, which is accompanied by an audio interview with Achebe, he talks about his relationship with Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novella Heart of Darkness. According…
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Movies for the Left
Over at Riku Writes, Richard Hourula has posted “Movies For Your Inner Leftist, That Are Suitable For All Political Persuasions.” In the piece Hourula offers little write ups on left leaning movies, some historically, some not. I mean, did you…