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The Gideon’s Bible, Kindle Edition
If you left your favorite religious text at home on your next business trip to Newcastle, don’t sweat it. The Hotel Indigo Newcastle is swapping all their bed stand Gideon’s Bibles for Kindles, allowing guests to purchase other “preferred religious…
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“The Well-Hung Boy Next Door”
In a GQ profile of James Deen, Wells Tower explores the secrets to the porn star’s sexual talent and industry success both on and off set, and argues that he may be owed a “debt of gratitude.” “..Just as Superman…
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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
“I’m sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.” As the second anniversary of Harvey Pekar’s death…
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The Endless Hustle
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.” At The New…
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Notable San Francisco: 7/2-7/8
This Week in San Francisco –welcome to July, y’all. Monday 7/2: Quiet Lightning, San Francisco’s mix-tape-reading that publishes as a monthly journal, is on at Galería de la Raza. Featuring 11 new readers, $3 Lagunitas, and musical performance. $5 suggested…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/2-7/8
This week in NYC: Very little. I suppose there’s a holiday happening. MONDAY 7/2: László Krasznahorkai, author of Satantango, gives a rare reading at HousingWorks Bookstore Café, followed by a discussion with James Wood. 7pm, free. Elizabeth Ellen, Mary Miller,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope everyone enjoyed their leap second this weekend. Terrifying: Switzerland unveils the first open air double-decker cable car. Let’s take a look at the menus of every single US president. While we’re on the subject: How do ancient seas…
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Today I Will Let You Have Your Saturday To Yourself
Friends, comrades, Rumpusers (Rumpusans? Rumpaloompas? Sorry), I am taking a mental health day today. However! I did write something about Sheila Heti’s new book for Slate this week that you are welcome to read. I suggest taking a powder on…
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“The Search for Decolonial Love”
In an extensive two–part Boston Review interview, Paula M.L. Moya talks with Junot Díaz about race and gender in his writing, emotional decolonization, and Monstro, his novel in progress. “There’s that old saying: the devil’s greatest trick is that he convinced…
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Andrew Orvedahl Show
Andrew Orvedahl, comedian, Rumpus friend, and creator of The Narrators, is performing on Friday and Saturday at Punch Line San Francisco. You can purchase tickets here.
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Back to the Foto
Irina Wernings’ photography collections, Back to the Future 1 & 2, are hilarious and heartwarming time-machinery: Just look at this! And that!
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Zapruder on San Francisco
Living in San Francisco “can be like being in a relationship with someone who is moody in an exciting and ultimately harmless way”, according to Matthew Zapruder, an SF poet, essayist, and Rumpus contributor. In an interview for Words Without…