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I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! #8
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: Anne Trubek’s A Skeptic’s Guide…
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Morning Coffee
On the origins of our alphabet. Everyone loves a good cubist birdhouse now and then. The Rumpus is god damn intellectual yo; Bio-semiotics! Misleading headline of the day: Beer microbes survive 553 days in outer space (actually about mining in…
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #6: Thirsty Vaginas Meet
The Perfumed Garden vs. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, both translated by Sir Richard F. Burton:
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/23-8/29
This week in San Francisco: an Adult Writers’ Seminar at 826 Valencia, a record release at Jellyfish Gallery, sweet animation at A.T.A., and, as always, art and poetry in The Mission — This time around at the Viracocha Variety Show.…
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What Writers Are Saying About Mickey Hess
Micky Hess has promised to blurb any book within 24 hours, and he is making good on that promise. Here is what writers are saying about Mickey, and the blurbs he has given them: “Thanks, I think…” – Buzz Poole
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Culture Death Match #1
Culture Death Match pits Salvatore Pane against Amy Whipple in a point, counter-point battle royal. Today’s bout has them arguing about the most moving half-hour of television from their youths. It of course involves an episode of The Golden Girls…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #50
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing unconditional love.
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Colford Talks Citrus With Brandon
Our own Caitlin Colford talks with John Brandon, author of Rumpus Book Club pick Citrus County.
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Venturous Vegetables at the “Frolic Grounds”
Scans from Venturous Vegetables at the “Frolic Grounds,” story and illustrations by T. Benjamin Faucett (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1924):
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Am I a Redundant Human Being?
A lost literary voice from early 1900s Austria slyly addresses female self-loathing and finds answers with unsettling modern relevance.