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“Manual for a Productive Everyday Life”
Ever think that your day-to-day hum drum simply isn’t productive enough? Do you feel bogged down by a sense of overall disappointment or lethargy? Well we’ve got answers for you! In her latest project, our own Rozalia Jovanovic gave out…
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DHS Does Not Approve
“I had wanted to make an interpretation of me giving all of myself to my work… I wanted to convey that the cans were exploding with color, and that’s how my art was being created.” – Rene Gagnon, street artist…
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The (Money) Passage
“I think literary is shorthand for appreciated, and commercial is shorthand for sells.” Justin Cronin‘s latest book, The Passage, is “vastly different from his previous work, which reflects his literary pedigree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard: a bunch…
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Daniel Gumbiner: The Last Book I Loved, The Savage Detectives
When does writing about ourselves become narcissistic? Are we ever not writing (or reading) ourselves? Some Thoughts After the Mezcal Ran Out:
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A Functional Freak
“3. If you’re not sure you could love your children, please don’t have them, because they might grow up and kill us.” Flavorwire has posted John Waters’ “10 best pieces of advice for functional freaks,”an excerpt from his new book,…
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The Notable André da Loba
We’re giddy with the news that André da Loba, the artist behind the brilliant, whimsical and surreal illustrations for our Notable New York column recently received a merit award from 3×3 Magazine for his Notable New York series. At 3×3‘s…
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Citrus County – Shipped
The Rumpus Book Club selection, Citrus County, began shipping yesterday. We’re going to ship another batch on Friday morning so there’s still time to sign up and receive the first book. Our second book, The Surf Gurus by Doug Dorst,…
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American Fractal
Timothy Green’s debut collection of poetry, American Fractal, picks up where scientific discourse leaves off.
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“Where the hell are my books?”
“My father’s lifelong relationship with books mirrored Hugh Hefner’s relationship with bimbos; day and night, he always had to have several within reach. He slept with a pile of them on his bed. He drove with a couple of them…
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Morning Coffee
A case study of bird’s nests. People with Asperger’s don’t really think about that at all. Donald Judd’s library is better than yours,` Huge news: Subway has at last agreed to change their cheese placement. A look at pulpy Steinbeck…