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Author Sexts
If you’re looking for a fun and clever way to waste time at work today, it might be worth participating in Electric Literature‘s Author Sexting Hashtag Contest on Twitter. Here are the rules: Embody the voice of your favorite writer in…
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“Things You Should Know About Isaac Fitzgerald”
For the past two, almost three years, the story behind a lot of my writing has been shaped by Isaac. He is the editor behind the writer. Really, Isaac is the editor alongside the writer. Yesterday Isaac Fitzgerald announced that he will…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
No, that cloud is not a UFO. The Dutch are going to (try to) put a man on mars in ten years. China has had enough of superstition. Today is a good day to discuss the guillotine (every day is…
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An Announcement
On May 1st I will be stepping away from the position of managing editor at The Rumpus. I will remain a co-owner and, of course, a member of The Rumpus’s ever-growing family of writers and editors. My four years at…
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Letter From Boston
I was walking out of MIT’s gym at 11 pm when the loudspeaker came on, telling us that there was a gunman on campus and to shelter in place.
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“Translation is the art of losses”
It’s probably no surprise that a group of translators would be masters of language. Last week, the new Center for Literary Translation was opened in Trinity, Ireland. The Irish Times interviewed a few of the translators there for the event (Hungarian…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #179
SLIMER ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Slimer.
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Introducing (finally): the Digital Public Library of America
The site is live but DPLA appears to just be the beginning. An idea almost three years in the making, imagined first by the leaders of 42 of America’s top libraries and research institutions has now come to fruition. The Atlantic asked the…
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“A best selling caricature”
The stage was set: CUPSI 2013, College National Poetry Slam Finals, Barnard College, April 6th. Rachel Rostad performed her piece “To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang,” which addresses the stereotyping of Asian women in Western art: “Let me cry over boys…
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Notable San Francisco: 4/22-4/27
Monday 4/22: Granta’s SF launch of the best young British novelists issue is tonight. Free, 7pm. Nato Green brings Mort Sahl, a comic who “revolutionized standup by making comedy topical, literate, and rooted in a point-of-view” to the stage for…
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Nick Cave Monday #32: “West Country Girl”
What do you do when you think a girl is hot and you really want to get with her? You write her a song. Nick Cave did that for PJ Harvey and “West Country Girl” was released on “The Boatman’s…
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Notable NYC: 4/22-4/28
Monday 04/22: You might have thought, Dustin, I’m glad to be through with your long (for this column) digressions on OBERIU. I’m glad it’s over. You would be a fool. I’m not done. On Monday you should definitely be at…