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Julie Morse
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Brooklyn Public Library’s Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project
The Brooklyn Public Library is inviting all Brooklyn residents to participate in its Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project. News articles and statistics don’t equate to personal narratives recounting the emotional impact of the storm. Participants will be interviewed for 20-30…
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Zombie Authors: Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood
At The Barnes and Nobel Review, Maud Newton interviews Naomi Alderman, winner of the Orange Award for New Writers and co-writer with Margaret Atwood of The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home, a recently published e-novel only available on Watt. Newton and…
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Thanks, Page Turner!
Today, The New Yorker Page Turner blog highlighted Abigail Welhouse’s Rumpus interview with Luis Negrón! Thanks, The New Yorker! We love you back!
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Cabbie Poetry
“Tip the waitress or barman well, ‘cause you’re going to need their toilet.” Taxi drivers made strides this year at the PEN World Voices Festival. For a handful of weeks, a group of long-standing New York City taxi drivers have…
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The Internet is Good
If you haven’t heard already, tech writer Paul Miller is back on the internet after a year of WWW celibacy. In his conclusive journal entry on The Verge, he’s not waxing ecstatic on the virtues of being wireless, but instead…
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Happy May Day!
Dissent Magazine is celebrating International Workers Day by asking journalists to comment on their favorite labor movement victories of the year. Highlights include the induction of paid sick leave bills in New York City, Portland, OR, and Long Beach, CA;…
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The Golden Gate Bridge = The George Washington Bridge?
Want to leave NYC but fear too much about abandoning your beloved Red Hook/Boreum Hill/Washington Heights/Harlem/Upper West Side…? Check out The Morning News’s list of counterpart neighborhoods throughout the US and abroad. Rumpus pal Alexander Chee recommends Portland, Maine’s Vinalhaven…
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Guantanamo’s Library
Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie Savage is one of the few journalistic voices speaking out on Guantanamo Bay. He’s also the only one to compile a Tumblr of the prison’s library. There are apparently 3,500 books on “pre-approved topics,” which, according to…
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Embarrassing Parents
A mother of a 7th grade student at Northville Mill Middle School in Michigan is protesting the school to send home permission slips before assigning “The Diary of Anne Frank” to its students. The mother called the book “inappropriate material” due to…
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2nd Person Narrative Is On The Scene!
It’s rare to see the “you” perspective thriving in the literary sphere, but Kjerstin Johnson’s Doug Fir Fiction Award winning “Employee Discounts: A Post College Job at Barnes and Noble” and Ashley Chamber’s “You Will Make Several Relaxing Cuts” are…
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Women Writers and the Interview
Are male and female writers interviewed equally? Loraine Berry at Talking Writing thinks not. It’s gone to show that interviewers are often more interested in a female writer’s dietary habits and marital problems than their literary processes and work. Jodi…
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Record-a-Poem!
Let’s help the Poetry Foundation celebrate National Poetry Month by recording our favorite poems! Check out their SoundCloud page where, in just a few clicks, you can record yourself reading any poem of your choosing. It’s free, easy, and bound to…