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Isaac Fitzgerald
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“I had more to say, but this was enough.”
“Last year a friend came to stay with me for a night, when he was between apartments. […] “Now I enjoy weird, unresolved sexual tension as much as the next person who makes a living writing about sex and relationships,…
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“He Didn’t Know What He Was”
“The year my boy Danny turned six, my wife Penny and me took him down to Lexington and got him good and scanned because that’s what everybody was doing back then, and, like they say, better safe than sorry.” “The…
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Morning Coffee
In honor of the cute essay we’re running this morning, here are some photos of an extremely cute baby elephant. Still not smiling? How about now? If you’re not into cuteness, you can always check out these modern-day recreations of…
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The World’s Largest Book Club
“What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club?” Jeff Howe (@CrowdSourcing) lays out his “scheme” to create the world’s largest book club using Twitter. “One Book, One…
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Poets Plaza
Want to help Lawrence Ferlinghetti build a “Poets Plaza” in the North Beach area of San Francisco? Click here to learn more about the project, and how you can help. (via @PoetryFound)
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Loss of a Poet
National Book Award winning poet Ai (born Florence Anthony) passed away on Saturday at the age of 62. Ai “died unexpectedly of natural causes.” Her new collection, “No Surrender,” is slated to be published this fall. For more about the…
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More Murrmann
Yesterday we ran an interview with photographer Mark Murrmann. If you liked the photos we ran with the piece, then we encourage you to head over to Mark’s website, markmurrmann.com, for more amazing images. You won’t be disappointed.
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Naked Breakfast
Good Morning. Hungry? Why not listen to William S. Burroughs reading from Naked Lunch? Or how about viewing some of the Naked Lunch manuscript? Or pictures of different editions of the book since its publication in 1959? Or hell, how…
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“Like a Criminal Rain Man”
Wired has published a fascinating article by Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman, “Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief.” The piece follows Gerald Blanchard, a scrawny criminal mastermind who starts young (pulled his first job when…