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Seth Fischer
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If We Try, We Can All Push California Into The Ocean
I have a terrible admission to make. I used to work for a bunch of politicians. And not only that. Part of me enjoyed it. I didn’t enjoy the way my various state, federal and local bosses would fly off…
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Maud Newton on Eve
“God excoriated Eve more roundly and punished her more severely than He did Adam not because she was more wicked, but because she represented an actual threat. Seeking knowledge, she chose to eat the fruit, whereas Adam ate passively and only because…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
At HTMLGIANT, brilliant craft advice from a cartoon! “If you’re not popular, and you write a good poem, nobody gives a shit.” The Guardian goes off on Martin Amis, complaining of “the continued endurance of a surprising tolerance for misogyny from…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s a Sunday, and it’s the day after Halloween. What makes for a better hangover than reading an excellent bunch of book reviews?
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A Recipe to Ruin Your Sunday
The Guardian pointed out Wednesday that every Life Magazine is now available at Google Books, and now, thanks to them, my week has been ruined. And now I’ve ruined yours! There is so much to find. The Guardian discovered this…
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Authenticity And The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
“In the 1980s, arguments about the Rock Hall reflected many people’s discomfort with the insider mood of those dinners and the idea that pop music (and especially rock) could support an elite at all. The squabbles shifted in tone in…
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The Racist Velvet Rope
Teri Woods, a “pioneer … urban or hip-hop fiction” author, recently tried to have a party to celebrate the release of her new book Alibi in a Soho night club called Greenhouse. When she got there, she found that some white…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
It’s Sunday, and, as always, The Rumpus is here to round up some blogs for you. Stephen King is waiting a month after the release of his new hardback to start selling an electronic version. Also, the e-book will cost…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s Sunday, which means Rumpus Books has a week’s worth of book reviews for you, plus two interviews, a conversation about the future of the Internet, and an essay on E-Books, all below the fold.
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Marilyn Nelson on Fortune’s Bones
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem is the poet Marilyn Nelson’s rendering of a really horrific true story about a slave owner in Connecticut who dissected the slave Fortune’s bones and “hung them in his house for a little medical school.”…