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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #17
Tired of waiting weeks or even MONTHS for back-cover endorsements from recognizable authors? I, Mickey Hess, will blurb any book – that’s right, ANY book – within 24 hours! Just look at these satisfied customers: Shane Jones’ A Cake Appeared:…
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THE BLURB #19: The Complete Thing
“As those early days blurred into weeks, I watched my newborn son losing weight. How could it be that we did not know how to feed our son? Where was our midwife now? Why, in the middle of this enormous…
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The Business of the Printing Press in the Time of Gutenberg
“Inventing the printing press was not the same thing as inventing the publishing business. Technologically, craftsmen were ready to follow Gutenberg’s example, opening presses across Europe. But they could only guess at what to print, and the public saw no…
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This Video Raises Many Questions
Such as: 1. Why are there two camels in a tiny car? 2. How does one get two camels in a tiny car? And the most important question:
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #30: The Football Hold
Hey Football Fans, Have you been watching a lot of NFL preseason games lately? Or have you, like me, mostly been watching breastfeeding?
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We Love Adam
We love Adam Johnson, so we’re very excited that Electric Literature has published an excerpt from his novel-in-progress, For the Love of Juch. (In all honesty we’re a little jealous that they have it and we don’t, but mostly excited).…
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“Vocabulary Negligible, Sentences Malconstructed.”
Not that this should come as a surprise, but Roald Dahl apparently received some pretty rough report cards.
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Clickety-Clack
“I don’t even know what a computer is. I’ve heard about them a lot, but I don’t own one, and I don’t want one to own me. Typewriters you can own. I think a computer owns you.” Meet “the oldest…
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Tinkering With the Closed Box
Cyborgia is wildly imaginative and the poems don’t take themselves too seriously. Even when these women are being constructed or destroyed, the book isn’t particularly angry or even political. It instead feels rather gleeful.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We try sometimes, but it is pretty hard to complain. Fur coats are French street art. Underwater vacation homes are the best vacation homes. Speaking of: Jean Cocteau and Villa Santo-Sospir. Let’s talk about old British public information films. There…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chinaka Hodge
The shooting of Oscar Grant showed that Oakland is in serious need of a discussion on race. The poet and playwright Chinaka Hodge provided such a discussion in her groundbreaking play Mirrors in Every Corner
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“Don’t Forget to Smile When You Serve Cold Drinks”
Something wonderful has happened. Make sure you stay until 1:07. (via WWAAtD)