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Have a good Thanksgiving, we’ll see you on Monday. Famous missing body parts. Alice’s copy of “Through the Looking Glass” is up for auction. LA without traffic is a pretty…
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Truth Serum books are 50% OFF until the end of this month. You could wait until later to buy some, but only if you’re filthy rich or irresponsible with money.
Albert Speer Would Be Proud
Not to mention Leni Riefenstahl. If Berlin has no mountains, why not build one? Architect Jakob Tigges suggests putting Berlin back on the monumentalist map by erecting a 3,000-foot mountain…
Morning Coffee
Flavorwire on the loss of Pop-up pioneer Wally Hunt and the best Pop-up Books of all time. I don’t know how people made found art before google maps. It is…
Wish You Were Here
Rumpus Street Team Leader Sona Avakian will be reading at a highly-anticipated and soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed event at 826 Valencia on December 5th in San Francisco. At WISH YOU WERE HERE, Sona…
If Twitter Is a Person, Then What am I?
Seriously. Time Magazine originally started out selecting a “Man of the Year” as a way to sell magazines in the down holiday season, which then turned into “Person of the…
Notable New York, This Week 11/23-11/29
This week in New York Justin Taylor and literary collective Wu Ming read, Tim Burton exhibit opens, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage and other films screen, Julian Plenti performs,…
Back from The War – Here’s some Ecstasy.
Rates of PTSD for Iraq war veterans have been estimated as up to 35% in a Stanford University study. The Army has reached out to alternative therapies from yoga…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #12
You don’t have to pay the mafia back if you can outsmart them, Doug. Check out this wig.
Morning Coffee
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home. Abandoned wood burning stoves. A look inside a San Francisco opium den circa 1889. Rebecca Ward‘s tape installations. Pickled evidence for evolution.
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Keith Waldrop, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry. Here’s their interview with Waldrop. Mark Scroggins uses the Barrett Watten reading I mentioned last week as a…