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Sam Riley
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Alina Simone Has Arrived
Alina Simone, who just double-impressed us with her reading/musical performance at the last monthly Rumpus, was profiled in the Wall Street Journal. Her first book, You Must Go and Win, chock-full of wandering tales and witticisms and her latest album,…
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Revolutionary Writing
Revolutionary writing from Ché Guevara, Diary of a Combatant, is being published for the first time in Cuba. The diaries document Ché’s time in Cuba from 1956 through 1958 were postponed due to a case of missing notebooks. “The book…
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Catalogs and Covers
What does a memoir that documents the painful loss of a family member and J. Crew’s summer catalog have in common? Nothing, which is why memoirist Robin Romm wrote this piece in Slate about their eerily similar aesthetic. The popsicle…
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Let’s Take a Walk Together
James Yeh writes on the Spontaneous Society for Faster Times, Jon Cotner’s ambulatory, real-life interaction/art installation, inciting strangers to interact positively with one another. The project was created in hopes of reigniting a certain kind of social spontaneity that is…
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Nosowsky Interview and Rumpus Praise
Author Meghan Ward interviews the Editor-at-Large of Graywolf Press, Ethan Nosowsky on her awesome blog, Writerland. The future of publishing, the utility of social media for publishers, and the literary blogs worth checking out, are all part of the dialogue.…
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33 and Feeling Great
Among myriad literary twitter feeds, the Rumpus shines, listed as one of the “thirty-three twitter feeds to follow,” by Poets and Writers. Thanks P&W!
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The Limits of Student Speech
“If a high-schooler uses an off-campus computer to create offensive material that relates to his or her school life — writing nasty messages about school administrators or fellow students, for instance — is his or her speech still protected?” The…
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Lucky Peach Y’all
McSweeney’s and David Chang’s new hunger-inducing venture, Lucky Peach, is out now. Check out the McSweeney’s attention in the Wall Street Journal. The first issue is ramen-themed. Being that there’s some sort of transitive property of common interest among those…
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English Takeover
Tim Parks writes on the tensions between lingua franca and vernacular—readers and writers don’t want to be confined to the limits of their national origin, while wanting to keep the vernacular-specific prose. There’s always translation, but is there an English…
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Reexamined
Behind The Autobiography of Malcolm X, there is a discussion over whether or not the book is an authentic depiction “of a martyred black icon or a sly act of ventriloquism by his more moderate collaborator,” that is Alex Haley.…
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Orson Welles’ Nose
Orson Welles was self-conscious about the size of his nose, a small issue that lead to make-up malfunctions and a lot of prosthetics. You can track this compulsion of a legendary actor/director through the size of his nose in his…