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The Bravery Of Uncertainty
“When you’re not religious, sacredness means something that fills you with awe. The creation of something awe-striking requires a pure offering, an opening up to the universe. It’s not always an act of risk, that could land you “in the…
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Grief And Hamlet
“My grief has been all the usual and varied colours of sadness and madness. It has been searing, voluptuous, numbing. I foresaw that it would be — I have been unhappy, unsettled, unbalanced before (who has not?). I did not…
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On Creating The Adderall Diaries
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is giving a series of lectures on using your life in your writing. Check out the links to reserve a place and more information. Proceeds benefit 826. New York, January 20, 826 NYC. Boston, January 23,…
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Morning Coffee
Conceptual art we can get behind: the biggest disco ball the world has ever known. Goodnight Keith Moon. No, we don’t speak German, but we do like these pictures by Keith Davis Young a lot. A completely awesome (if highly…
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FUNNY WOMEN #13: Ask Jeeves
Hi, Kathleen. Thanks for writing. Perhaps I’ll answer your question with a question of my own: Where the hell have you been?
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Morning Coffee
True story: this entry briefly read “morning of coffee”. I tell you this because I trust you. The top ten places you can not go. A guide to making cartoons in 1910. This whale shaped water-cleaning-super-garden makes me happy to…
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Calvin Tomkins on William Kentridge
The January 18 edition of the New Yorker (online for subscribers) has a superb, in-depth profile of South African artist William Kentridge by Calvin Tomkins. Kentridge, who worked in drawing, print, film, theater production and direction, is best known for…
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Morning Coffee
Resin macrophotography. Because it is cool that’s why. US Geological Survey map of the moon. (via Metafilter.) It’s been a long time since we’ve talked about the red devil squid. Inflated taxidermy. The creator of letters of note would also…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/11-1/17
This week, buy The Rumpus a drink at the first Monthly Rumpus of 2010, San Francisco’s MoMa turns 75, and Conan O’Brien honors Conan O’Brien at this year’s Sketchfest. Monday 1/11: Don’t miss the first Monthly Rumpus of the year. …
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Welcome Back: Tonight!
No time like the present to get tickets to tonight’s blowout Monthly Rumpus in San Francisco: Welcome Back. Featuring authors Michelle Tea, D. A. Powell, Elissa Bassist, Daniel Nester, and Allison Hoover Bartlett, with music by MC Lars, plus a…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/11 – 1/17
In New York this week Richard Price is interviewed by Philip Gourevitch, David Byrne presents Creation in Reverse, Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter chat over brunch, Tao Lin (who will also be reading at The Rumpus’s first anniversary party)…