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Julie Morse
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The 411 on reading and crying while commuting
Embrace those subway tears, urban commuters! Busses and trains are great places to read, but how do you cope when you’re on a crowded train making limited stops and the book you’re reading causes those tear ducts to flood? Preeti…
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International Comics in February
This month, Words Without Borders has its annual “International Graphic Novel” series. The lineup features comic artists from France, Spain, Perú, Egypt, and Japan. Every panel is translated into English, and each artist brings his or her own distinct style…
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Book Industry Forecast
Who doesn’t want to validate their decision to purchase an e-book by seeing it in physical form at a bookstore first? At Melville House, Dennis Johnson discusses how the rapid demise of Barnes & Noble is slowly sucking the life out…
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Zak Raven vs. HIV
Darren G. Davis, author of The 10th Muse and Legend of Isis, two graphic novels with cult followings, is also the creator of Lost Raven, a memoir-style graphic novel about a man who grapples with his diagnosis of HIV while…
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The Art of Motherfuckertude
We all have these feelings inside us—anxiety, fear, trepidation, hope, desire—and our every effort becomes getting these things out. Writing that letter to you and publishing it was how I felt connected and compassionate. Two and a half years ago,…
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SF: MAPP, This Saturday
San Francisco, come out this Saturday, February 2nd, to MAPP (Mission Arts & Performance Project)! MAPP is a bi-monthly event where performers, poets, artists and musicians occupy restaurants, cafes and galleries for a full day and night’s worth of free,…
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Celebrate The Bennet Family’s 200th Year
“Darcy: How odd. I’m strangely attracted to this uncouth woman who shows so little deference!” Want to celebrate the 200th birthday of Pride and Prejudice without actually reading the classic? Check out the very abridged, illustrated version that Jen Sorensen…
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Books and Kickstarter
Thinking about launching your book on Kickstarter? Writer Seth Godin has chronicled his experience with his own book project on Kickstarter and calls it an “experiment in publishing.” Godin says: Kickstarter seems custom made to solve the 10,000 copy problem.…
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History of Tattoos
The fact that tattoos existed in a time before “punk” was a word to describe a movement is a hard notion to grasp. The New Yorker has compiled a series of photographs of women in the early to mid 20th…
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ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue Release Party!
This Friday, January 25th at 7pm, Diesel, a Bookstore in Oakland will be celebrating the release of ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue. The night will feature readings by a variety of West Coast writers, including Rumpus contributor John W. Evans. Hosted…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss returns tomorrow. In the meantime… Don’t go to the zoo with this guy. The emotional map in your brain. Do you ever just want to jump in a… Sorry, nobody is cloning a caveman.
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Get Out of My Crotch!
Today, on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Get Out of My Crotch! hits the stands. It’s a collection of twenty-one essays that speak out against the travesties of the US health care system and the relentless prevalence of violence…