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FUNNY WOMEN #32: Brag, Build, Banana
One woman’s search for everything across India, Iran, and Iceland… excerpts from my extraordinary upcoming novel of self-discovery.
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It’s Official
Zadie Smith will take over Harper’s New Books column “beginning with the March 2011 issue.” (via Jezebel)
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Greenman Gets Corked
Author Ben Greenman (read The Rumpus interview with him here) on attending the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Festival in Cork, Ireland.
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There Is No Other
Jonathan Papernick’s short story collection revolves around the trials and tribulations of “an unlucky persecuted tribe.”
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Notable New York, This Week 9/20 – 9/26
This week in New York Josh Neufeld gets graphic, How I Learned teaches us how to inhale, FDG Reading Series returns, Guillermo del Toro signs book two of three, Sam Lipsyte joins Brando Skyhorse, Arrested Development parties, and DUMBO Arts…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Update: Danish inventions are better than yours. Volcano breath is a pretty cool phrase. Volcano tornado is a cooler one. Water melon lantern festival! Cloudscapes is pretty much the neatest installation piece of the year.
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The Scarlet “SW” for Sex Worker
I first heard about the U of New Mexico controversy via Facebook, when Joy Harjo left a status update reporting that she’d had to quit her job because the university was preventing her from protecting her students from sexual harassment.…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/20-9/26
This week, The Porchlight Reading Series, highbrow porn at the Indie Erotic Film Festival, Barbie gets a makeover at the Altered Barbie Poetry Reading, and fetishists celebrate at the 27th Annual Folsom Street Fair. Monday 9/20: San Francisco is nothing…
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What Ginsberg Wants You to Read
Be sure to check out Allen Ginsberg’s “Poetics Practicum,” which Daniel Nester scored from a friend who studied under the legendary author at Brooklyn College.
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What’s Your Writing Ritual if Not Dozing Off with Metal Balls in Your Hands?
How do we write? Supposedly Benjamin Franklin, after depriving himself of sleep, would sit with metal balls in his hands, his arms dangling at his sides. He would fall asleep, the balls would hit the floor: Ben would wake, snatch…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #54
DICK CHENEY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Dick Cheney.
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The Last Book I Loved: Sailing Alone Around the World
“Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!” – Joshua Slocum, sailing through a storm south of Tierra del Fuego. When Joshua Slocum (author of Sailing Alone Around the World, first published in Great Britain by…