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Rejection Sucks and Then You Die: How to Take a Dear Sad Sack Letter (and Shove it)
In what job other than writing must you seek out frequent and concrete rejection? Okay, fine, but go get your own self-pitying rant.
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Computer Poets Not Half Bad
Using “Markov chains” and “pulling text from Project Gutenberg,” Paul Thompson wrote (er, “wrote”) computer-generated “snowball” poems in which each word is one letter longer than the last. Others joined in, and now there’s even a Twitter bot spinning verse out of 0s…
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Is the Internet A Modern-Day “Dunciad”?
And so it proved, as music website after music website soon reported on the Gordon-Moore breakup in exactly those sort of exclamatory tones, completely ignoring the fact that the article focused on Gordon as a modern feminist hero rather than…
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Authors Deface Own Books for Charity
Literary organization English PEN has chosen an interesting way to raise funds: ask authors to annotate first editions of their books, and then auction them off. J. K. Rowling is the prize catch in terms of predicted auction money, but…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Someone please go to Paris’s newly resurrected Louxor Palais du Cinema so I can live vicariously through you. Monkey and whale cultures are the best cultures. Here is today. Let’s all enjoy 50 years of Dutch safety posters. Also, Soviet…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #180
ALPHABET SOUP ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing alphabet soup.
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Mein Führer, the Vegetarian
“Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him—that’s why he had fifteen girls taste the food before he ate it himself.” The Associate Press reports the story of ninety-five year old Margot Woelk. She was the only one of…
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Nick Cave Monday #33: “I’m Gonna Kill That Woman”
Have you ever been harassed by a bully? Someone who comes up to you on the school playground. And all you’re trying to do is eat your ice cream cone in peace. So the bully comes up to you and…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Check out these tasty Rumpus morsels, posted over the weekend! Wendy Ortiz interviews poet Louise Mathias about beauty, ecstasy, and eroticism…and “snakes and horses and sky and birds and hallucinogenic flowers, and stars, and the smell of creosote after rain,…
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Notable New York: 4/29-5/5
Monday 04/29: The PEN World Voices Festival is celebrating its ninth year and kicks off tonight with a reading titled Bravery. Hosted by comedian and author Baratunde Thurston, the reading will feature readings from “Najwan Darwish, ‘one of the 39…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Kokeshi matche are the cutest thing you will see today. Polish cold war neon (huzzah). Speaking of, hey remember that time we tried to weaponize the weather? wrapit-tapeit-walkit-placeit is you tumblr of the week. Welcome to 2013, where inmates review…
