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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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Iron Chef

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

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My First Kiss: An Oral History

“I have no idea what her name was. Something Polish. It was a girl at a family reunion…” Selections from answers from interviews taken by students for English 251: Interviews and…

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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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Chelsea on the Rocks: Twilight of the Hotel Chelsea

Abel Ferrara has attempted, with mixed success, to capture a little bit of the legend and a little bit of the sordid actuality of the Hotel Chelsea in his new…

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A Story of Le Loup (or: Notes For & Against a Musical Auteur Theory)

My first introduction to Le Loup’s debut album The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly came in isolation. This was an album to be listened…

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What Is an Anthem

A poet doesn’t review the poems in G.C. Waldrep’s Archicembalo—she listens to them.

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The Rumpus Interview with Frank Plant

I like things to be accessible; it’s important for me to communicate to the non-art crowd as well as those more versed in art appreciation so I keep the entrance…

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