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Celebrate the End of Prop 8 with Jacket Copy’s List of Classic Gay Lit
The dream team line-up of Carolyn Kellogg, Nick Owchar and David L. Ulin present LA Times book blog Jacket Copy’s list of 20 classic gay books in honor of the rejection of Proposition 8. “On a day that will find many gay…
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Morning Coffee
How about a little typography porn to start your Thursday off right? Oh, hello awesome 1960s robot dog. How are you? This is an article about a solar-powered vibrator. Are you happy now? Behold the straddling bus! First the triceratops,…
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Vivian Gornick
In an effort to embolden myself to move past this crippling fear and go on writing – or give up altogether – I’ve begun interviewing memoirists I admire.
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Now Playing: Kisses
It’s no secret that fairy tales and dreams have a good deal in common. The action of both often rolls onward with a seeming inevitability, a certain sense of fatedness. Strange landscapes fade in and out of view, at once…
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How to Survive the Next Article About eBooks: Make It a Drinking Game
Sunday Editor Seth Fischer just pointed me to this amusing article, which lays out rules for a drinking game based on articles about eBooks. For example: “Will e-books wipe out / kill / decimate /pulverize / HULKSMASH /angry verb real…
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A Little More of the Tao
The Atlantic just did a little piece about Tao Lin here. Apropos of an article Lin published a couple weeks ago about being arrested for trespassing, the Atlantic’s Hua Hsu writes: “The piece gives you a good sense of Lin’s…
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12th and Delaware
Over at Mother Jones, Rumpus volunteer and Mother Jones intern Maddie Oatman has published a review of the abortion-rights documentary 12th and Delaware, the new film from the makers of Jesus Camp: “The new documentary 12th and Delaware, which premiered…
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10/40/70 #18: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam…
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Miranda Rights Under Slow, Steady Attack
From the AP: “You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you’re remaining silent.
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Crain on Freud
Caleb Crain has been re-reading and blogging Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams: “Two forces meet the reader of the Interpretation: Freud’s authority and his charm. Are they monsters? Seducers? Has-beens? The authority interferes before the book is even picked up. One…