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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)…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #19
“Do it underwater to make it really badass.” You know who said that? Henry Houdini. Now help me with the straightjacket and put the padlocks on. Those girls will be here soon and I want to be ready to jump…
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Morning Coffee
Still here for you, never you worry. The misfits of modern agribusiness. Design Sponge has some lovely terrariums to show you. 2010 is here, so now we have robot border guards. Landscapes made from tiny things. Evidently we are feeling…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Happy Saturday everyone. So Missouri Governor Jay Nixon wants a Poet Laureate for the state who doesn’t have anything in his or her background that might embarrass him. I take it he doesn’t know many poets. Connecticut is looking for…
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Question of the Day
Earlier this week, Sean Lovelace at HTMLGIANT asked about the last time you read a book you didn’t really want to read, and while I was coming up with my answer, it occurred to me that I haven’t finished anything…
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Science Saturday
Business Week suggests some ways in which the Apple Tablet, whatever it ends up being called, could change the world. Hyperbolic? Probably. But I suspect I’ll want one. Hominids might have taken to the oceans a lot earlier than once…
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Saturday Morning Links
Morning, everyone. We’ll start in Switzerland, where the traffic fines are based on your income. And in this case, that meant a $290,000 fine. In fairness, it sounds like he was a bit of a douche. As someone who isn’t…
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Life Stories Roundup, This Week 1/1–1/8
A roundup of profiles and life stories from around the web.:
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FUNNY WOMEN #12: Destroying Angels, A How-To Guide
77%* of Americans say they believe in angels. That doesn’t mean we like them. Sure, they were cute–at first. Maybe you thought you’d never get tired of those sweet rosy faces and chubby behinds. But now…
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Endearing Wrecks
“Bloom’s characters, I’m happy to pronounce, are glorious, endearing wrecks. They are simultaneously loyal, petty, resentful, and compassionate. They are vain, horny, bullheaded, and brave. In their messy assemblage of traits they are new to us yet resemble everyone we’ve…