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Maddie Oatman

Maddie Oatman has interviewed musicians and writers for The Rumpus. She’s the research editor at Mother Jones, where she also writes. A Boulder transplant, she can often be found on her bike, skis, or cooking with vegetables, and she wrote her English thesis on a gay red-winged monster and Billy the Kid. Follow her on Twitter or read occasional musings on her blog Oats.
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    Cut, Chop, Re-release: Director’s Cuts

    Cinema may face a far less foreboding fate than, say, our country’s print journalism, but the medium still seems to be undergoing a transformation. In Slate Magazine’s “Death by a Thousand Director’s Cuts,” Jonathan Rosenbaum reflects on the state of…

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    Whatever Happened to the Church of the SubGenius?

    Allegedly founded in the 1950’s by J.R. “Bob” Dobbs, the Church of the SubGenius rose to infamy with the publication of SubGenius Pamphlet #1 by Reverend Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond in 1979. Attempts to classify the organization prove tricky,…

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    A Distracted Defense

    At the start of his New York Magazine article, “In Defense of Distraction,” about the pros and cons of overstimulation, Sam Anderson tells us to pause from updating our Facebook and Twitter profiles, refreshing our e-mails, checking text messages, peeking…

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    The Last Book We Loved

    We present to you all of the “Last Book I Loved” entries to date, a library of lovers, the anthology of all our little darlings. Indulge.

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    The Bard in the Basement

    Today marks the 400th anniversary of the release, by publisher Thomas Thorpe, of Shakespeare’s sonnets. A new book by Clinton Heylin, called So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, questions whether the marvelously crafted poems…

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    Maddie Oatman: The Last Book I Loved, Divisadero

    Last night I dreamed of apocalypse: the room filled with water for a couple of hours, and we were all submerged, floundering around in scuba suits and waiting for the world to return. The details of the nascent civilization that…