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Sendak’s Return
Maurice Sendak’s got a children’s book out, which makes it a total of 30 years since his last written/illustrated masterpiece. This thirty year period wasn’t exactly silence—he’s been illustrating books, designing operas, etc., Bumble-Ardy just marks his return to a…
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All Over Coffee
All Over Coffee #544 Bowery & East 1st Another gorgeous Rumpus Comic from Paul Madonna.
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WHERE I WRITE #14: A Green Room in Gujarat
The wall in front of the desk is a greenish turquoise. The painters came and finished the whole flat in just a few hours, and you can see where the paint-soaked rag dripped a little.
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The Atlantic Summer Fiction Issue is OUT
The esteemed Atlantic Summer Fiction Issue 2011 has been parceled out in installments for a little while now, but now you can finally enjoy the issue in its entirety. Today, all of the stories are available to read right here.…
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Coming Soon: Best Americans
Now is a fitting time to announce the upcoming release of The Best American Comics 2011 (coming out in October), with Comic-Con having just wrapped up this past weekend. This year’s compendium is being edited by Allison Bechdel, who is…
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The Last Book I Loved: West with the Night
Her mother was a nurse, shot in World War II in Nepal. She—my mother-in-law—was an Ivy League-educated, motorcycle-driving, garden-planting veterinarian in Vermont… with a pilot’s license. When she passed away after a bout with cancer, two weeks after the birth…
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A Box, or Paradox, A Language Game
Tesser’s chapbook slips outside certainties, authorities, controls, leaving her reader-players loose to enact their own language game, re-encountering the inherent antic plasticity of words and meanings.
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Jennifer Egan Has Things To Do
The most recent fiction Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan’s got a new piece in the Guardian’s Short Story Summer Special. Check it out.
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Remembering Black Panther History
David Hilliard, the original Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party can walk you through the historically significant sites of Black Panther Party activity in Oakland. He recounts the former congregation spots and the practical programs they implemented—the free…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some things involving the Milky Way. Are you very afraid of small clusters of holes? Aren’t we all? Perhaps we’ve been thinking about cancer all wrong. Soviet movie posters: also pretty neat. Who wants to go explore a…