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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Internal: New Rumpus Comic
The Rumpus Comics section has a new member; please welcome Lucas Adams and his comic, The Bins.
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iPerseus
“Perseus Books Group, a large independent publisher that also distributes works from 330 other smaller presses including Grove Atlantic, Harvard Business School Press, Zagat and City Lights Books, signed a deal last week with Apple, following five of the six…
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The Book of Andrew
“For all its political relevance, though, what I love most about The Book of Daniel is the writing, Doctorow’s high-wire act of structural contortion, his ventriloquism, and the slippery point of view he employs to bring this troubled and troublesome…
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ORBooks Walk Away From Amazon
“For every e-mail we get querying why our books are not available on Amazon, we get another saying how much our new approach is appreciated.” ORBooks has pulled its publications from Amazon.com, stating that doing business with the online retailer…
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Photos of McQueen
While we’re not big on celebrity here at the Rumpus, we did link to these previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe when LIFE made them public this past summer. So we’d be remiss not to do the same with these…
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Words After Death
“I am against the posthumous publishing of a late author’s work unless it can be proven without a doubt that posthumous publication is the express wish of the author. If it can’t be proven, then the default action should be…
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“Another of those long and agonising breakdowns.”
“For some days, of course, we hoped against hope that she had wandered crazily away and might be discovered in a barn or a village shop. But by now all hope is abandoned.” An archive, made public for the first…
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Is Google Just the Beginning?
“A new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that a growing number of U.S. companies feel unwelcome in China—thirty-eight per cent, up from twenty-three per cent in 2008—the highest level of dissatisfaction recorded in the four…
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Google Pulls Out of China
“Earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China…