Features & Reviews
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The Last Book I Loved: Await Your Reply
Await Your Reply moved me because it is a novel that tells the tale of a few people searching for identity while leaving old ones behind.
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Eskimo Grasshoppers: French Children’s Books of the 30s and 40s
1948, Apoutsiak, written and illustrated by Paul Emile Victor
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The Rumpus Interview with McSweeney’s Publisher Oscar Villalon
“These things, writing and reading, are never, I don’t think were ever, ever meant to be exclusive from anything else. I think they were always meant to be part of the grand fabric of life.”
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“Some Contemporary Characters”
Rumpus columnist Rick Moody‘s new story, “Some Contemporary Characters,” is being tweeted by Electric Literature in what they describe as a “new venture in microserialization©.” The story started today, and will run until December 2nd. But don’t worry about the…
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Refresh, Refresh
A new graphic novel translates Benjamin Percy’s short story about children of the Iraq war into brilliant color.
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Into the Vault
I’m on a NPR Weekend Edition segment about Shakespeare’s First Folio this weekend; Scott Simon and I ventured into the vault of the Folger with library director Gail Paster. It’s very rare that they let anyone into the underground vault…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/30-12/6
This week in San Francisco: three bicyclists make a pit stop on their 12,000 mile journey, thus taking care of your exercise quotient for the year. Also, the International Body Music Festival, the Lower Haight Holiday Art Walk, and two…
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Things to Think About: Publishing Links
An excellent, straight forward look at rejection: “My Horrible New York Times Review.” Michael Greenberg on “Writing & Money.” Will the legendary Elliott Bay Book Co. be forced to close its doors? Borders dies in the UK. Are eBook readers…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/30 – 12/6
This week in New York Cate Blanchett acts in A Streetcar Named Desire, John Ashbery and Paul Auster read, Mike Daisey monologizes, an n+1 panel discusses feminism and love, Sherman Alexie talks with Rick Moody, Samuel Beckett’s Letters get talked…
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The Rumpus Interview with Cyberpunk Richard Kadrey
The last time I saw you, in 2000, we were in a hotel room in Pittsburgh; one of us was naked and there was a beautiful, heavily tattooed girl handcuffed to the sink…
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La Danse Macabre
All works from La Danse Macabre by Rene Georges Hermann-Paul, 1919 from the collection of Richard Sica: “L’Alcool” (detail)
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Belle de Jour Is the New Pretty Woman
Pick any political debate or news article about prostitution, and there’s a high probability there’ll be a quote along the lines of “It’s a far cry from Pretty Woman.” As if that’s going to come as a surprise. As if…