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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Random Media Notes
Google helps newspapers erect online pay walls. The Federal Trade Commission examines possible support for news organizations. Rupert Murdoch plans $15 million New York edition of The Wall Street Journal. As The New York Times staff shrinks, blogs will be…
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DFW’s Grammar Challenge
“IF NO ONE HAS YET TAUGHT YOU HOW TO AVOID OR REPAIR CLAUSES LIKE THE FOLLOWING, YOU SHOULD, IN MY OPINION, THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SUING SOMEBODY, PERHAPS AS CO-PLAINTIFF WITH WHOEVER’S PAID YOUR TUITION” Do you think you have what…
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Ramona Falls: “I Say Fever”
“My favorite music video of the year.” –Dan Chaon (via @Danchaon) Read The Rumpus interview with Chaon here. [Editor’s note: This song has been featured as a Rumpus Tune of the Day.]
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(Large) Stocking Stuffer?
Rumpus books editor Andrew Altschul‘s first novel, Lady Lazarus, is on sale for an obscenely low price this holiday season: for less than $7 (with shipping) you get the mint-condition hardcover at used-paperback price. San Francisco Magazine calls the book…
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“Baywatch,” “Short People,” and “Saving Wasted Breath”
Three poems by Jennifer L. Knox, author of Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, have been posted over at The Awl. Give ’em a read. (via @R_Nash)
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Larry Is Also Troubled By a Bear
“Composed as a series of vignettes, pivotal moments in a troubled man’s peripatetic life, the narrative flits within the gray area between poetry and prose and, while it dispenses with linearity, finally coheres into a portrait of Larry, a fallen…
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“Some Contemporary Characters”
Rumpus columnist Rick Moody‘s new story, “Some Contemporary Characters,” is being tweeted by Electric Literature in what they describe as a “new venture in microserialization©.” The story started today, and will run until December 2nd. But don’t worry about the…
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Things to Think About: Publishing Links
An excellent, straight forward look at rejection: “My Horrible New York Times Review.” Michael Greenberg on “Writing & Money.” Will the legendary Elliott Bay Book Co. be forced to close its doors? Borders dies in the UK. Are eBook readers…