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Seth Fischer
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Facebook Gives You Syphilis
“Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside, claimed staff had found a link between social networking sites and the spread of the bacteria, especially among young women.” A researcher in Britain claims that Facebook is contributing to a…
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Steve Almond on Music Criticism
“Am I suggesting that music criticism is a pointless exercise? Yeah, I guess I am. In many cases it’s even worse than that. Because critics are, by their very job description, charged with being hypercritical. I certainly was. It was…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Robot journalists! What could possibly go wrong? (via Book Bench) “Houses are not homes – they are holes and caves.” Apparently, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is a short story writer. And he’s not very good. Happy birthday to the Millions!…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Rumpus Books has been busy with tons of excellent reviews. Also, illustrations and cute book excerpts. Come check it out.
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The Best Metaphors Ever
“She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.” “It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.” “He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.”…
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“The pulp of 2010”
Jonah Lehrer laments a big problem with the social web: “The one shared feature that I’m most interested in is also a little disturbing: the tendency of the social software to quantify our social life. Facebook doesn’t just let us…
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On Graduate School in the Humanities
“(W)e must think of graduate school as more like choosing to go to New York to become a painter or deciding to travel to Hollywood to become an actor. Those arts-based careers have always married hope and desperation into a…
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“sharpening our tongues for a chance at real life”
“If “all the world’s a stage,” then the internet is where we rehearse our lines, sharpening our tongues for a chance at real life.” — Jimmy Chen over at GIANT takes a look at a chat roulette meeting between a…
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Time For A Vote
“I think a lot of those people (protesting against the bill) today demonstrated this is not about health care. It’s about trying to extend a basic fundamental right to people who are less powerful.” — House Majority Whip James Clyburn,…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Who doesn’t like bookplate porn? (via) The Rumpus doesn’t do pop culture, but if you happen to have written something about Lady Gaga, you might want to send it here. (PS. GIANT doesn’t lie. Kate Durbin is awesome.) Apparently, this…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Happy Sunday! You know what Sunday means, right? Below the fold, catch up with what Rumpus Books reviewed, excerpted, and loved this week.