Cultivating First Novel Karma
Matt Stewart has written an interesting piece at the Millions about how to cultivate good First Novel Karma:
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Jeremy Hatch
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Jeremy Hatch is a writer, musician, and professional bookseller leading a cheerful, aimless life in San Francisco. He is the Junior Literary Editor of the Rumpus and has a blog which he updates once in a while.
Rachel Shukert Interview at SMITHMAG
Rachel Shukert is coming out with a new book this week, Everything is Going to Be Great, a memoir of her years in Europe, and SMITHMAG has published a thought-provoking…
Perfecting Sound
Scott Rosenberg has posted a review of Greg Milner’s Perfecting Sound Forever: an Aural History of Recorded Music:
DIY Publishing & Marketing Seminar In San Francisco
On August 23rd, 826 Valencia in San Francisco is hosting their second Adult Writers’ Seminar from 7-9 pm. This seminar focuses on DIY Publishing and Marketing. The panelists are a…
How to Survive the Next Article About eBooks: Make It a Drinking Game
Sunday Editor Seth Fischer just pointed me to this amusing article, which lays out rules for a drinking game based on articles about eBooks. For example: “Will e-books wipe out…
A Little More of the Tao
The Atlantic just did a little piece about Tao Lin here. Apropos of an article Lin published a couple weeks ago about being arrested for trespassing, the Atlantic’s Hua Hsu…
12th and Delaware
Over at Mother Jones, Rumpus volunteer and Mother Jones intern Maddie Oatman has published a review of the abortion-rights documentary 12th and Delaware, the new film from the makers of…
Miranda Rights Under Slow, Steady Attack
From the AP: “You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you’re remaining silent.
Crain on Freud
Caleb Crain has been re-reading and blogging Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams: “Two forces meet the reader of the Interpretation: Freud’s authority and his charm. Are they monsters? Seducers? Has-beens? The…
Presumed Guilty Online
Today is the last day you can watch Presumed Guilty for free online, I just found out — through midnight tonight. The documentary is about the shockingly corrupt Mexican justice…
Art From Behind
Kathy Grayson is the director of Deitch projects, and I recently found out about her entertaining and interesting blog Art From Behind. You don’t read it, really; each post consists…
The Rumpus Interview with Mac McClelland: Burma, the Karen, and Genocide
In March, Soft Skull Press released For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question, Mac McClelland’s memoir of the six weeks she spent in Thailand, helping refugees from Burma living…