Columns
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/13-9/19
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, The Peanut Butter Plan, Rebecca Solnit at the JCCSF, and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside! Monday 9/13: It’s the second Monday of the month, which can only mean one thing: The Monthly Rumpus! The September…
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The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR
Meet Josh Simpson, the man behind the hilarious Twitter feed @BPGlobalPR.
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Auto-Tune the News #13: Driving. Stripping. Swinging.
Read “The Rumpus Mini-Interview with The Gregory Brothers.”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #53
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Ted Wilson Reviews the World.
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Close Reading
Jonah Lehrer has an article in Wired on the ways by which e-text might affect our reading processes. Lehrer begins by briefly summarizing the “neural anatomy” of how we read: we have a “ventral route,” which, for a literate person…
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Burroughs’ Graphic Novel
In 1970 William S. Burroughs and cartoonist Malcolm McNeill created a “Word/Image novel,” but were never able to find a publisher for their work. Now, thanks to Fantagraphics Books, Burroughs’ graphic novel will “see the light of day.” (via TheBookBench)
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Jazzy Danziger: The Last Poem I Loved, “Epithalament” by Brenda Shaughnessy
Contrary to popular belief, language is not flat, passionless, clichéd and dying, and if you disagree, it’s imperative that you read Brenda Shaughnessy’s poem “Epithalament” as soon as possible. Language must be “weirded” if it’s going to make the ordinary…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/13 – 9/19
This week in New York The Rumpus hosts The Summer Shake Down, Tony Blair takes us on his Journey, Tom McCarthy reads from C, James Ellroy releases The Hilliker Curse, Neal Pollack Stretches, It’s Kind of a Funny Story screens…
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Stumbling into Immensity
Ted Gilley’s short story collection, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, maps grief’s breathless journey from haunted to home safe.
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #44
See, you’re just falling for the media depiction of it. If heroin’s really that bad, why are are the best artists and musicians into it? Besides, you can go totally green if you share needles. You’re the one always talking…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Rumpus buddy Joshuah Bearman on the metaphysics of Pac-Man. More Venice Biennale radness. Department of terrifying-Eastern-European-art: panotICONS. Big Picture has your diving photography porn for the week. Insane 1970s interior design.
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Mike Topp, Instigated
Mike Topp, writer and editor, 51, lives with his wife in a one-bedroom apartment in Stuyvesant Town in New York City. The Empire State Building is framed in the center of their 8th floor living room window.