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Weekend Essay Round-Up
Here are three rad Rumpus essays you may have missed while sipping bottomless mimosas and taking in summer delights this weekend: David L. Ulin watches his son grow up in a New York entirely separate from the one he knew…
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Notable San Francisco 7/16-7/22
This Week in San Francisco… Monday 7/16: Bird and Beckett’s Poets! series features Jerry Martien & Carlos Suarez reading from recent releases. Free, 7pm. Tuesday 7/17: Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir host poetry and jazz open mic, Word Party at…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/16-7/22
This week in NYC: MONDAY 7/16: BOMB Magazine launches its summer issue at Bookcourt, featuring an audience Q&A and panel discussion with Joshua Cohen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Justin Lieberman, Carole Maso, and B. Wurtz. 7pm, free. TUESDAY 7/17: Akashic and Brooklyn Rail…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The oldest Americans totally loved Stumptown Roasters. You Chose Wrong is your best Tumblr ever for the day. Here are some animal silhouettes. Good news: Google Street View can take your California national parks vacations for you. You know what…
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Post Haste
This month, the U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with its plan to cut service hours and close stores nationwide, despite the continued existence of exchanges, such as Postcrossing and The Rumpus’s own Letters in the Mail (ahem!). Morning Edition reports…
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A “Future of Digital Publishing” Article That We’re Actually Excited About
“It’s an LG-something. It flips. Lately, though, it’s a little sad because the flipping mechanism has gotten very loose so it’s more like a flap-phone. It just dangles out there.” That’s Eli Horowitz, “luddite and creator of a new digital…
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Whose Opinion Is Missing?
Talking Points Media reports on the deficit of female op-ed writers, citing an assessment conducted by The OpEd Project. The article quotes Katherine Lanpher, a member of the organization, who tells the website: “We are seeing that women aren’t narrating…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news autumn babies, you are more likely to live to be 100. Elsewhere on New Scientist: Maybe Pluto is a planet after all! It’s time to map the internet. The future is made up of trendy MRI sweaters. This…
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‘The The Angels Angels’ & Other Astrophysicist Baseball Observations
Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History. Author: Space Chronicle, The Pluto Files. Host: StarTalk Radio) on Baseball: > Tonight’s @AllStarGame compells me to Tweet what Baseball looks like through the lens of an astrophysicist… > In the 1960s, when we…
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Doctor Fraud
Back in a 2009, Zak Smith called out an unnamed celebrity doctor in his Rumpus essay on Sasha Grey. The physician in question, Drew Pinsky, is now under scrutiny “after admitting he helped a major drug company promote antidepressants to…
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SF vs. The Other Big Apple
Last week Apple computers pulled out of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). Apple, increasingly under pressure from environmental campaigners in recent times, may be on the outs with San Francisco. Disappointment with this action on Apple’s part runs…
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Joke or Invitation?
In a thought-provoking Daily Beast essay about Daniel Tosh’s “rape joke” at the Laugh Factory, Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist clarifies the distinction between using humor “to cope or to point out the absurdity of a situation” and making…