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Jeremy Hatch
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Kolmanskop, Namibia, Slowly Sinking Under Sand
Atlas Obscura published an amazing pictorial today of this Namibian diamond-rush town, which was founded in 1908 and was completely abandoned by 1960. Check out the description: “Residents of Kolmanskop accumulated enough wealth to build an entire town influenced by…
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A Tale from the Trenches
Today the Awl published a long essay by Richard Morgan about his seven years as a freelancer, which I read this afternoon. It’s a worthwhile if sobering read, and really entertaining: the subtitle is “How to Make Vitamin Soup,” if…
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A View of the Long Form
Kevin Kelly recently published a review of the journalism website Long Form, which seeks to promote long-form journalism by making it easier to find and read articles online or on portable devices. Kelly says that Long Form “points to the…
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The Collins Almanac is Back!
Friend of the Rumpus and all around cool guy Paul Collins has revived the Collins Almanac on the McSweeney’s iPhone app: “After six years of slumber (I prefer to call it “deep cogitation”) the Almanac is back as an exclusive…
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David Mamet, Crypto-Conservative All Along?
Not long ago David Mamet admitted that he is a conservative, and in his latest book, Theatre, he attempts to integrate his newly articulated politics into his view of the theater. But as Terry Teachout points out in this essay…
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Interviewers, as Seen by Novelists
The B&N Review has published an amusing piece by Tom LeClair about the way interviewers of novelists are portrayed in novels by DeLillo, Roth, Coetzee and Bolano — and LeClair describes his own experiences from the trenches of interviewing artists.…
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Autosummarize, Applied to Popular Works
Graphic designer Jason Huff has taken the 100 most-downloaded copyright-free books and applied Microsoft Word’s 10-sentence autosummary to them. The Book Bench highlights some funny ones, but it’s really worthwhile downloading Huff’s entire PDF. (via The Millions)
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Bill Murray Interview at GQ
A long and very interesting interview with Bill Murray is up at GQ; one of the most interesting things comes right up front, where we learn that anybody can get in touch with Bill Murray simply by calling an 800…
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Win Free Novellas from Melville House
Melville House is publishing three novellas translated from German this month, and they’re giving away a complete set to every tenth person who emails them. All you have to do is send an email to be considered! (via the Center…
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A Handful of Experimental Writers
In an article that appeared in the Observer yesterday, a trio of writers introduces a trio of experimental authors. Skip past most of the article — it’s a bit of filler not worth the trouble — but check out the…
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The Surf Guru Reviewed in the NYT Book Review
Yesterday I opened my Sunday Times Book Review to find that the Rumpus Book Club pick has once more been reviewed by the New York Times. Obviously the folks at the New York Times are reading the Rumpus.
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Weigh in on the Long Haul
Stacey Derasmo’s wonderful piece for the Blurb column, “The Long Haul,” is about the reasons writers keep writing — the reasons any artist keeps doing their work, really, whatever that work is. Have you read Derasmo’s piece? The discussion has…