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Maddie Oatman
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The Rumpus Book Club Roundup:
All the Hype-Last week, Nerve‘s The Hype Line claimed Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru as one of the five things it couldn’t look away from. Writes Ray Rahman: “When you pick up a book written by a guy who knows that a ‘chigoe’…
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Today Is Rick Moody Day!
We’re sure you’ve been anticipating Rick Moody’s The Four Fingers of Death (out today) as much as we have, but in case you have some catching up to do, here’s a round-up of the reviews:
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Who Do You Write Like?
You read last week in The Rumpus about the new “statistical analysis tool” that tells you who you write like. Coding Robots, a group of software developers, seemingly created I Write Like just for fun; the page analyzes your word…
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Citrus County Hits New York, Texas is All About Doug Dorst, and Tao Lin Challenges his Readers to a Dual…er, Contest: The One Rumpus, One Book Round-Up
New this week, The Rumpus presents a smattering of Book Club related news, including highlights of past, present, and future books in our queue. -You may have already caught Daniel Handler’s excellent review of John Brandon’s Citrus County (bloggers are…
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Tortured Confessions: The Rumpus Interview with Justine Sharrock
In her book Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, journalist Justine Sharrock takes a close look at low-ranking soldiers who engaged in acts of torture.
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Abandoning the Mothership
We’ve all heard the stories about people getting fired from jobs because of overly revealing Facebook photos, or of couples breaking up by changing their Facebook “relationship status” before even talking to one another. Though Facebook is meant to exist…
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Please Read the Letter That I Wrote
Starved for funds, the United States Postal Service recently considered cutting its mail delivery service down to five-days a week–not a huge surprise considering their losses over the last couple of years and the fact that Americans are relying more…
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The Underworld Through Folk
Singer/Songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, a folk opera set in a post-Apocalyptic Depression-Era, illuminates the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus through the twangs and harmonies of folk music. If that seems like a disjointed mix of influences, listen to Hadestown…
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Investigations into Politics and Punk: The Photography of Mark Murrmann
I’ve just started walking with photographer Mark Murrmann down Polk Street in San Francisco, and already he’s busted out his camera and started snapping shots of a street construction project. For Murrmann, no scene is too mundane to make memorable.
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Dark Green Underbelly
With healthcare reform moving at such a sluggish rate, we’ve all become pretty exasperated by the worsening creases in Washington. In the face of so much disagreement, thank goodness the environmental movement is so unified. Who in their right mind…
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Choose Your Own Valentine’s Day Music Adventure
It’s that one day in the midst of dreary February that’s supposed to remind you to reach out to the one you love or lust after. But chances are you are either swinging solo or just sick of all the…
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The Cost of Digital Lit
First there was the bitter move by Amazon to remove all Macmillan titles from its digital inventory after Macmillan demanded higher e-book pricing. Then two more publishing houses publicly denounced Amazon’s dime a dozen approach to pricing e-books at $9.99.…