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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Female Punks
“Punk was something you did rather than listened to, or admired. It was about being that person yourself, rather than standing back and thinking that somebody else was great.” Cazz Blase discusses the British punk scene of the 1970s with…
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“Nancy Drew’s Sexy Secrets”
“The girls accordingly enjoyed themselves by admiring each other’s dainty lingerie, choosing the stockings which would best match slippers and frocks, and so for a time forgot the mystery. Helen was in ecstasies over Nancy’s powder blue evening gown…” Back…
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“Central question: Love: good thing or bad thing?”
“Three Delays is so stunningly composed, so wildly, implausibly, excessively written, that it makes the entire shelf of novels from the last generation superfluous. The story? The characters devour the story.” Rumpus columnist Rick Moody reviews Charlie Smith’s Three Delays…
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Zak Smith Does Blood Meridian
Rumpus contributor and all around awesome writer/artist Zak Smith, in collaboration with “Sean McCarthy, John Mejias, Craig Taylor, Shawn Cheng, and Matt Wiegle,” has a new project: “Six Versions of Blood Meridian.” You can learn more about SVoBM here, but…
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48 Hour Magazine
48 Hour Magazine is now available online. The project, “which was just a concept 14 days ago,” was a complete success, with over 1,502 submissions. A very special (albeit somewhat self-serving) congratulations to our own Nicholas Rombes, whose short story…
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Private Social Networking
“Four students at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences want to create an alternative to current social media that lets users better control their privacy.” Facebook, meet Diaspora, “a planned personal Web server that stores information to be…
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“How did you become a rock ‘n’ roller, anyway?”
“Truth? I was broke. I got into rock because it was enjoyable way of making my money and taking four or five years to puzzle my next move out. I was a painter before that, studying commercial art at Bromley…
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“Sir Jinx is on the top right, wearing all black…”
Ever wonder what happened to the posse members featured on the cover of the 1987 album N.W.A. and the Posse? Well, thanks to the LA Weekly, you no longer have to.
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Free Serial
Pop Serial, a limited-edition print magazine edited by Stephen Tully Dierks and “starring Tao Lin, Joshua Cohen, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Zachary German, Nic*Rad, Kendra Grant Malone, and many more” can be downloaded for free here. Enjoy.