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“Twitter For Authors”
The LA Times reports that Twitter has released a how-to-manual titled “Twitter for Authors.” The guide details six tips particularly geared towards writers, some of which include the not-so-helpful “Be Authentic, Be Yourself,” and “Above All, Have Fun.” Nowadays many…
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Network Gender Balance
Should you seek a utopian, gender equal virtual space in which to social network, scribd, orkut, and foursquare are where it’s at. However, the internet vortex of social networking sites sees the scales tip in favor of a female majority.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This makes so much more sense than homeless people: turning payphones into WiFi hubs! So, how did people get here? The Makedomium monument is the best. American things from the past look cool too!
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A PEEK INSIDE ZADIE SMITH’S NEW NOVEL
The Millions has excerpted the first lines of Zadie Smith’s forthcoming novel NW. Set in northwest London, this book is Smith’s first novel since the publication of On Beauty in 2005. NW will be released this September.
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Palahniuk at the Castro Theatre
On July 16, Chuck Palahniuk will be at the Castro Theatre in conversation with Rumpus contributor Tom Barbash. Last month, Palahniuk released Invisible Monsters Remix, a “director’s cut” hardcover of a novel he first published in 1999. In the new edition,…
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The DIY Sentry Gun Scene
Tech crunch hypothesizes that yes, contrary to what you may have believed previously, there is in fact money to be made in the DIY sentry gun scene. Rudolph Labs has released an open source tracking sentry gun system that uses…
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SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND: TEN YEARS OF PORCHLIGHT
Porchlight is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with a two-day festival featuring “storytelling superstars from the last DECADE of Porchlight.” Those superstars include a number of Rumpus contributors, such as Bucky Sinister, Tamin Ansary, Cassie J. Sneider, and our own Isaac…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Yesterday was Tesla Day, Atlas Obscura was there for you as always. Let’s all watch the Statue of Liberty get unboxed! Evidently stem-cell tourism is a thing but probably won’t be for long. Important news: Mozart was gross. The universe…
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What Really Happened? We Still Don’t Know
At The New Yorker, novelist and Pulitzer Prize jury member Michael Cunningham has written a two-part essay about why there was no Prize awarded for fiction this year for the first time since 1977. The essay, while coming from a source one…
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Gender and the Job
“It’s hard to imagine a young woman’s stripper story serving as an allegory to critique capitalism: woman loses home in foreclosure so now she loses her bra.” At The New Inquiry, Elizabeth Greenwood reviews Steven Soderbergh’s new film Magic Mike, paying close attention…
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FUNNY WOMEN #83: Rejection Letter
Certainly you are aware that Haughty is the largest magazine in the world, so we must assume that your submission was a mistake.
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Notable New York, This Week 7/9-7/15
This week in NYC: MONDAY 7/9: This month at the Franklin Park reading series: Mark Leyner (The Sugar Frosted Nutsack), Eric Sasson (Margins of Tolerance), Rupinder Gill (On the Outside Looking Indian), Mathhue Roth (Losers), and Polly Bresnick (Old Gus…