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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy birthday America. I know some people (read: we) give you a lot of guff, but that’s just cause we love you so much. We’re going to be taking things easy today in your honor.
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Tiny Beautiful Things Makes the Honor Roll
Entertainment Weekly reviews Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s collection of Dear Sugar columns. Books over there are graded, and this one got a big ol’ A. Hooray! The review touches on why Sugar is a game-changer: “Dear Abby probably never…
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Support Publication of Young Authors: CanTeens Kickstarter
CanTeens, a literary and arts magazine, gives Harlem seventh graders an opportunity to discover and foster a love of reading, writing, and art through classes and a chance to see their name and writing in print. Unfortunately, CanTeens doesn’t have the funds…
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Thanks, Litseen
Remember last month’s celebration of written correspondence? Litseen has a winning combo of event footage and kinds words. We love you back!
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Sun, Sand and Substance
Looking for beach reads? The Atlantic asked a number of trusted writers and readers, including Sash Frere-Jones, Emily Gould, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott, to recommend books “that live up to the spirit of summer while still making us think.”
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Get Your Sugar From the Source
Cheryl Strayed has a collection of her wildly popular Dear Sugar columns, some never before published, coming out in one week. The book is called Tiny Beautiful Things, and it is available for pre-order right here on The Rumpus! Click here…
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n+200,000.00
“Like the market for skin care products, the market for credentials is inexhaustible: as the bachelor’s degree becomes democratized, the master’s degree becomes mandatory for advancement. Our elaborate, expensive system of higher education is first and foremost a system of…
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Margaret Atwood on the Internet
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaiden’s Tale, the last book Jenna Le loved, tells us about writing with the internet as part of PEN’s Dialogue Series. “For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.… I think…
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The End of the World, and of Sixth Grade
On Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan reviews The Age of Miracles, a new novel by Karen Thompson Walker about “the slowing” of the world, told by an eleven year old girl, Julia. “Sure, the natural world may be melting, but every bit as…
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Lost In Translation
Prospero brings to light the homogeneous nature of American and British book markets, remarking: “When it comes to international literature, English readers are the worst-served in the Western World.” Only three percent of books published in America and Britain annually…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all look in on the fire devastation FROM SPACE. Today is famous dead people doing things: Einstein on the beach and Proust playing air guitar. There is nothing quite like late 60s commune design. The government wants to make…