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Lauren O’Neal
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Ed Hardy: Way Cooler than You Knew
Did you know Ed Hardy is not just a brand name, but an actual person? And that after becoming “the first Westerner to work with a traditional Japanese master” of tattoo art, he led the “current tattoo renaissance” with an…
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Less Face, More Book for These Reclusive Authors
Though it can be hard to remember between tweeting at your favorite writer and joining a Facebook event page for a reading, there was a time when many authors led reclusive lives with minimal self-promotion. Bookish has rounded up a…
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Aleksandar Hemon Reading
Aleksandar Hemon—Bosnian ex-pat, MacArthur genius grant recipient, and Rumpus interviewee—will be reading and signing books September 18th and 19th at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose. The event on the 19th even puts Hemon in conversation…
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Margaret Atwood’s Brilliant Book Riot Guest Post
Did you see that guest-poster over at Book Riot? She’s some young upstart named Margaret Atwood with some crazy ideas about horror, terror, genre fiction, and literary fiction. To add to that, the complete Edgar Allan Poe was in the…
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Giving Editors What They Want
For emerging writers, submitting pieces to literary magazines can be like hacking through a jungle of confusion with a guess-machete. This piece from The Review Review, titled “What Editors Want,” will clear a path straight through for you. A teaser: If…
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Gentrification and Diaspora in San Francisco
We are waiting to see if the city will understand what the community already does: that Marcus Books is a historical landmark; that it is San Francisco; that it is the Fillmore’s best self. If they do, perhaps the store…
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Amazing Bookshops from around the World
A character in Jim C. Hines’s Libriomancer calls bookstores “the closest thing I have to a church.” If you, too, worship at the altar of crowded shelves and cracked spines, you’ll adore this list of ten unique bookstores from around the…
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“Hunting Deer at the Spa”
“Do you feel pressure to have children before it’s too late?” “There aren’t a lot of photos out there of you. Is there a reason for that?” Read these and other questions that have been posed to female authors—but at…
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Artist Collaborates With 4-Year-Old on Weird, Wonderful Drawings
Much like when our beloved illustrator Jason Novak collaborated with his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter to draw all 43 US presidents, artist Mica Angela Hendricks shared her sketchpad with her four-year-old: “I was going to draw a body on this lady’s face,” I…
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Happy Labor Day!
Celebrate the workers of the world with the Poetry Foundation’s list of “poems reflecting on work, responsibility, and the end of summer.” The post includes links to audio recordings of readings and interviews, as well as a few analytical articles, for…
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Lady Gaga’s Surprisingly Literary New Music Video
Life’s most fundamental question echoes boundlessly: What to do with that degree in the humanities?! One option is to become a pop superstar and make a music video saturated with references to Greek myth, German expressionist film, and modern art…