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Rozalia Jovanovic

Rozalia Jovanovic is a founding editor of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art. She is the Deputy Editor of Flavorpill and has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Columbia University. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming from Unsaid, The Believer, Everyday Genius, Guernica, elimae, and Esquire.com. She blogs at The Astonishing Egg and is The Rumpus New York Editor.
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    Journal Highlight: Triple Canopy Issue #6

    Among the many offerings of Triple Canopy Issue #6 “Urbanisms: Model Cities,” are three standout pieces. “What is the Antique in Truro: A Portfolio” is a stunning collection of Adam Davies’ photographic portraits of American cities that have endured mass…

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    Arthur Jones will Illustrate Your One-Sentence Story

    This summer, writer, illustrator and animator Arthur Jones will illustrate your one-sentence story with one Post-It Note. Jones, who has taken his Post-It Note Series on a cross-country tour, and whose yellow sticky notes have given darkly comic life to…

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    BEA Redux: Why the Show Must be Refashioned

    With BookExpo America at a comfortable distance for reflection, it’s a good time to take a look at “Random BEA Thoughts,” Chad W. Post’s five-part essay on the need for reevaluating the book trade.

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    Where Lawns End: The Rumpus Interview with Amy Stein

    I swiped on the lights in my cabin jerked from a half-sleep by a non-human fracas coming from a place right beyond my window.

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    2009 Woolf and the City Preview

    On the heels of BEA comes the 2009 Woolf and the City conference, an event of modern proportion, which will be bringing fans of Virginia Woolf to the campus of Fordham University in New York from June 4-7. Keeping things…

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    Journal Highlight: Monkeybicycle Issue #6

    Short fiction is often spoken of in terms of genre, a genre of ephemeral writing that is erased from the mind as quickly as it was most likely written. But the fallacy in this is that genre presupposes a style…

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    The Latest Talks from TED

    TED, or Technology, Entertainment, Design, began as a conference in 1984 that brought together leaders in those three fields with the mission of spreading ideas. Now, the annual conference challenges presenters to give “the talk of their lives” in 18…

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    BEA Breakdown: What’s Going On and Where

    BookExpo America is back in New York at the Jacob Javits Center with a show, conference and special events. What’s nice about Book Expo is that all the booksellers come to town, the bookstore owners and employees from across the…

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    Elizabeth Wurtzel on the Mental Instability of the Founding Fathers

    In “The Pop Culture Clause,” Elizabeth Wurtzel’s essay in the new issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Wurtzel asserts that American culture has produced Elvis, blue jeans and the gold rush because the Framers of the Constitution…

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    Journal Highlight: Conjunctions and the New Weird, a Non-Genre

    Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between, its Spring 2009 issue, has just been released. According to the Editors’ Note, the issue explores what happens when the “borderlands of the normal and absurd…are breached.” This breach is bare in  Secret Breathing Techniques,…

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    Sparklehorse, Danger Mouse and David Lynch

    For a limited time, NPR is offering an Exclusive First Listen to a collaboration of Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse‘s multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous that may never be released.

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    The Modest Mogel and the Grey Lady

    David Geffen, one of Hollywood’s most hallowed players, has roused the newspaper industry with his recent offer to purchase a large stake in the the New York Times. On May 11, Fortune Magazine revealed that Geffen was shopping for the…