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Lisa Dusenbery
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Poetry Mystery
The discovery of a 500 year-old poem pasted in the back of a a 1561 edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer sparked an investigation into the poem and its author, Elizabeth Darce. “On the one hand it’s not brain surgery.…
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Dark Matter
As scientists search for the “God particle,” The Awl explains some things about Higgs and gives us a glimpse into the world of physicists and all their certainty. “Physicists do the most lovely thing: they quantify conviction. They know what…
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A Decade of Stopping The War
Stop The War: A Graphic History captures the images—photographs, posters, graphics, cartoons and art—of a decade’s worth of the stop the war movement in the UK. The Guardian gives us a sampling of the book with this gallery.
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Tweets: The New Money
“Pay with a Tweet allows writers, publishers, musicians, artists and companies to set up social network exchanges. Readers simply click on the “Pay with a Tweet” button on the website, downloading book excerpts, eBooks, music and other goods in exchange…
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Best American Reading Tonight!
Join Tom Barbash and Mac McClelland, contributers to The Best American Nonrequired Reading for a reading and benefit for 826 Valencia. The event is at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza tonight at 6pm. If you missed McClelland reading at last night’s Rumpus…
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More on Amazon’s Assholery
“As I see it, the problem with Amazon stems from the fact that though it started out as a bookseller, it isn’t anymore, not really. It sells everything now, and it sells it all aggressively. Maybe Amazon doesn’t care about…
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Elissa Schappell Interview
Bomblog interviews Elissa Schappell about her collection of short stories, Blueprints for Building Better Girls. Schappell talks about the writing process, setting, and the idea of “gendered writing.” “It’s no secret how crazy the concept of “gendered” writing makes me.…
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This Week in Love and Shame and Love
“Teeming yet not hyperactive, full of emotion without being mushy, elegant yet intimate, this is a book that gets into your head and makes itself at home there.” That is praise from The New York Times’ review of Peter Orner’s…
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Friendly Advice
What do you do if you find yourself befriending a writer? Rebecca Rosenblum breaks it down, answering a few FAQs regarding day drinking, topics of conversation, and reading a friend’s writing. “If a writer publishes something in a journal or…
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How To Make Wine!
Rumpus artist Wendy MacNaughton has made a print detailing “How to Make Wine.” Originally created for Pop-Up Magazine’s Sidebar at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the piece is now available to purchase on Etsy! A perfectly lovely and useful…
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Roxane Gay on The Situation in American Writing
“The Situation in American writing,” Full Stop’s questionnaire for prominent authors—with questions ranging from literary criticism to war—elicits some excellent responses from Roxane Gay. “My writing is lots of things but more often than not, the stories and essays I…