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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Reviewer and Reviewee
Shya Scanlon posted on Big Other about an extremely harsh review of Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash written by Tom Bissell for the New York Times. The post led to a long back-and-forth with John Madera, also a contributor to…
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Painted Leviathan
Inspired by Zak Smith, who illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow page by page, Matt Kish has set out to illustrate every page of Melville’s Moby Dick. You can find more of Kish’s work here, and learn more about his ongoing project thanks…
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Random Media Notes
Editor & Publisher will publish January issue — hope remains? Magazines get ready for the tablet. Over 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the newspaper industry this year. France pledges nearly $1.1 billion to digitize French literary works. Miami…
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More About Last Night
Did you manage to miss the December Monthly Rumpus due to a prior engagement, a badly timed break-up, or the simple fact that you, like much of the world, don’t live in the Bay Area? Or were you lucky enough…
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Forum-Play
Did you miss Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott on Forum with Michael Krasny this morning? Fear not, you can listen to the excellent interview in its entirety (including when Krasny talks foreplay) here.
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Lit Drift’s Free Book Friday
Lit Drift has another Free Book Friday contest coming up. This week they’re giving away a copy of Pasha Malla’s The Withdrawal Method. In the Rumpus review of Malla’s book Jeff Parker writes: “Malla’s stories are a strange assortment of…
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December 14th: The Monthly Rumpus in San Francisco
Please join us on December 14th at The Makeout Room (3225 22nd St.) for a night of literature, music, and comedy. Featuring Andrew Leland from The Believer Magazine, James Nestor, author of Get High Now, Michelle Gagnon, author of The…
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A Eulogy for Editor & Publisher
“It’s a sad day, but in a strange way the death of Editor & Publisher gives me hope for the future of journalism. Because they showed us a blueprint, that size or technology is overrated, that a half-dozen people can…