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Seth Fischer
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“The Death of Fun”
“It has been nicknamed “the death of fun” — the idea that a once-playful (San Francisco) populace has in recent years turned into a phalanx of Gladys Kravitz-style meddling, whining neighbors.” It’s with a lot of trepidation that I even…
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What’s Literature Worth?
“The problem, as I see it, is that literature is a gentleman’s pursuit–and we no longer have gentlemen.” — A wonderful rant and blog by Jenn Hawe on the economics of literature at the Black Clock Review blog.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
And a good morning to you, too! Now, to the book blogs… Did you catch that The Wall Street Journal is getting rid of, wait… What did you say? No. You have to be kidding. They’re launching a book review…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s time to catch up with what Rumpus Books published this week.
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The Gender Gap Gully
“In 2008, single, childless women between ages 22 and 30 were earning more than their male counterparts in most U.S. cities.” Some new census data is showing that the gender gap has not only slowed but reversed in this very…
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On Sexual Assault in the Military
“The person I was at that time died.” — Maricela Guzman, an activist and rape survivor who is working to stop the plague of sexual assaults against women in the U.S. military. At Guernica, she is profiled by Courtney E.…
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The Wrong Kind of Dystopia
“The rise of dystopias has enabled what amounts to a new form of propaganda. And it’s a new form of propaganda that is particularly dangerous because we find ourselves so entertained by its message that we’re reluctant to give it up.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
It’s Labor Day weekend, which we get, partially, because the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals killed and injured a bunch of workers while breaking a strike and then Grover Cleveland felt bad about it. Or he was scared. One of…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Happy Labor Day weekend, everyone! Here’s what Rumpus Books has been up to this week.
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The Business of the Printing Press in the Time of Gutenberg
“Inventing the printing press was not the same thing as inventing the publishing business. Technologically, craftsmen were ready to follow Gutenberg’s example, opening presses across Europe. But they could only guess at what to print, and the public saw no…