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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #5: Patrick Maier
I live on Bomarc Lane, which is located in Satellite Beach on Florida’s Space Coast and is about two miles away from Patrick Air Force Base. The street is named after the Bomarc missile, the only surface to air missile…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #13: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian
In Rochester, New York, my best friend Brian returns from a mission to fix an errant Xerox brand copier, the company that employs him as a technician. I sit in the offices of the L Magazine in DUMBO, as an…
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Morning Coffee
Artist Bruce Munro puts old cds to good use. Of note: if you are looking for a present to give me, these vases are super rad. Police sketches of your first love. (via Flavorwire.) A tree? Scientifically explaining “blindsight.”
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A MODERN READER #3: Extreme Solitude
I have largely avoided The New Yorker’s Fiction section. The stories were about aging women who lived on Cape Cod, or they were set in developing countries. I don’t want to name names, but you know what I’m talking about,…
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Finding God with a Point of View
We all learned about the various sorts of PoV in middle school. Yet third person omniscient stood out as odd and unachievable without the genius of God. Our teachers assuaged doubt with some abstract definition. The search through the genealogy…
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Winesburg, Ohio
“A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling a small wave of despair about being a writer and teacher at a time when common wisdom holds that ‘no one reads anymore.’ But then some of my UC Riverside students sought…
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Dear New York and San Francisco Readers
Looking for something to do this week? Don’t forget to check out our event listings, Notable New York and Notable San Francisco.
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Still Unsettled
“At this point, Google and the Authors Guild must feel like they are in a James Joyce novel.” A look at the still ongoing Google Books settlement. (via The Book Bench)
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“Blake never wrote novels. Whitman never wrote novels.”
“I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in a different way: they’re highly charged, a slightly newer form, and inherently more contemporary.” Author David…
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Cinderella Meets Serpentina In Kiev
Marina from Ukraine (visit her on last.fm) contributed these illustrations by Alexandr Mychajlow for Fairytales of Foreign Writers (Ukraine, 1988). I can’t find any info on the artist.