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Faces of Addiction Revisited
Back in March, we published a post on Chris Arnade’s “Faces of Addiction” project, which explores the stories of addicts living in New York City through a combination of photography and text. Earlier this month, Arnade wrote a piece on…
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An Interview With Austin Kleon
Rumpus contributor Andrew David King interviews Austin Kleon at The Kenyon Review’s blog. Kleon has a knack for altering a text to make it his own, and talks at length about creative originality: “I guess what I’m interested in is why ‘originality’ is a…
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Open Access to Research is not the same as Napster for Music
There may soon be an end to borrowing the JSTOR password of your friends in grad school with the rise of Open Access peer-reviewed work, thanks to the Budapest Open Access Initiative: “Imagine a group of authors who do not…
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Twitter Can Help You Steer Clear Of Potty Mouths
The Atlantic covers a recent study that uses twitter to analyze where the United State’s most profanity prone individuals reside: “The Ukrainian-based web development firm Vertaline, aiming to answer that question, scanned tweets posted from across 462 specific locations in the U.S. The team…
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Notable San Francisco: 8/27-9/2
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 8/27: UK-based performance duo Action Hero explores Americana with Stranger in a Strange Land, a piece inspired by the landscapes of this country seen through foreign eyes. Sliding scald, 8pm, CounterPulse. Tuesday 8/28: Inside…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It wasn’t a very essay-heavy weekend here at The Rumpus, but we still published all kinds of good stuff. Check it out: Amy Cheney, who has worked as a librarian in a detention center for the past 12 years, recommends…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/27-9/2
This week in NYC: MONDAY 8/27: Words by the Water this week showcases Electric Literature, with readings by Katie Bellas, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Fiona Maazel. East River State Park, 7pm, free. TUESDAY 8/28: This month’s Fiction Addiction features readings by…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is of course the best possible time to see what E.B. White wrote about the moon landing. Also, here are some space pictures. Underwater secrets are cool too! Oh, hey, I wonder what Olafur Eliasson is up to. Now…
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This is a Link-Heavy Saturday
I had a terribly busy week. One of the things keeping me busy, I’d like to mention, is the excitement over the release of D.T. Max’s Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, which goes…
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Sending Vibes Through Squids
BoingBoing documents the research of Backyard Brains, which, as of late, has consisted of monitoring how playing Cyprus Hill affects a squid’s chromatophores. The results look not unlike an iTunes Visualizer: “Greg Gage of the DIY neuroscience company Backyard Brains stimulated the axons…
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On Inspiration
Courtesy of The Story Prize Blog, author Adam Prince gives some helpful advice on the truth behind inspiration: I think inspiration is largely a myth. It’s tied to the myth of talent, which makes writers seem like we’re special people,…
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A Die-Hard Fan’s Lament
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond, an unwavering Oakland Raiders fan, writes for The New York Times about being a true sports fan, specifically a fan of a floundering team: “As I prepare to immerse myself in another season of ill-fated devotion, there is…