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James Franco’s Face: A Subjective Account of the New Yorker Festival

Friday October 16, the New Yorker opened its annual weekend festival of readings, conversations, art tours and musical performances. This is my account of the events I attended, which included…

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A Recipe to Ruin Your Sunday

The Guardian pointed out Wednesday that every Life Magazine is now available at Google Books, and now, thanks to them, my week has been ruined. And now I’ve ruined yours!…

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The Racist Velvet Rope

Teri Woods, a “pioneer … urban or hip-hop fiction” author, recently tried to have a party to celebrate the release of her new book Alibi in a Soho night club called…

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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

It’s Sunday, and, as always, The Rumpus is here to round up some blogs for you. Stephen King is waiting a month after the release of his new hardback to…

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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

It’s Sunday, which means Rumpus Books has a week’s worth of book reviews for you, plus two interviews, a conversation about the future of the Internet, and an essay on…

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Iron Chef

A jilted lover expresses her lust, hatred, and remorse through exquisite courses of caviar, duck, and tongue.

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Things to Think About: Publishing Links

Richard Nash on “The Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing” Booksellers ask the Justice Department to investigate the book price war under way between Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target. Google opponents urge…

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Booty Hunting for the Brainy

Bibliophiles of the world, take note: if you are not an inhabitant of the Twin Cities, you could be missing a chance to put your literary acumen to practical use.…

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Conversations About the Internet #3: Jonathan Zittrain on Civility and Freedom Online

I think we’re really at a place where it’s hard to predict the future, where governments haven’t fully realized just how much power is falling into their laps, nor have…

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With All Due Respect to Cormac McCarthy

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold and the ditch he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Not in a weird way.”…

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Universal Authorship

You saw it coming. Your grandma has a blog and your friend’s tweets are invading whatever small sliver of silent privacy you had left. We’re all becoming authors. Is this…

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Richard LeComte: The Last Book I Loved, The Assassin’s Song

Having read several textbooks in library science and young adult novels over the past few months, my memory turns eagerly back to The Assassin’s Song by M. G. Vassanji, which…

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