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Collecting Every Book Ever Published
One might call Brewster Kahle a master archivist. He’s the man behind the Internet Archive, a digital library that stores a copy of every web page posted since 1996. And now he’s set out on another ambitious project: to collect…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Really great piece by Tom Lutz in the LA Review of Books on publishing, newspaper, literature–it’s all over the damn place. But great. Elizabeth Powell on the poet as editor. Via Bookslut, there’s some real problems with the reporting in…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Dream Song 29” by John Berryman
The Dream Songs are, at their best, incantations, syllables given to the unspeakable. And yet, here’s the really unsettling thing: They’re fun. “Dream Song 29,” and the others in 77 Dream Songs, read quickly and lightly. Their rhythms catch in…
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What Went Wrong?
The Association of Writing Programs announced its accepted events for the 2012 convention in Chicago on Friday, and my Facebook page/Twitter feed blew up with joy and anguish alike. The panel I’d been asked to be a part of missed…
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Charles Graner is out of jail.
Does that name ring a bell? It was one of those names that I saw and knew I’d heard, but couldn’t immediately place where I knew it from. If it weren’t for the headline, I’d probably have never figured it…
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Science Saturday
The TV show Cosmos is coming back, with Neil DeGrasse Tyson as host, and with Seth McFarlane as Producer. Lost in the hubbub over the crashing stock market was the launch of Juno. Here’s what it might discover about Jupiter.…
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Saturday Morning Links
If you’re not going to observe Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s day of prayer, might I suggest the Day of Debauchery & Gluttony. I’ll be the guy with two feedbags and a Bushmill’s IV drip. If you leave your microphone near…
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The Art of Postcard Writing
How many postcards have you written (or received) this summer? This minimal art form, caught up in our hyper-digital world of e-mail, facebook, and cell phones, seems to be slowly but surely disappearing. Read Charles Simic’s reflections on this “lost art”;…
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A Meditation on Humiliation
This beautifully and eloquently written piece by Elizabeth Bachner explores the ways in which we feel and conceptualize the human emotion of humiliation. What is humiliation exactly, and how does it play such a crucial role in literature and in…
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Reviews for the last book we featured in our Rumpus Book Club!
Are you a part of the Rumpus book club? Remember last month’s book, Christopher Boucher’s debut novel How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive? Well, it‘s starting to get great reviews out there. This post on The Millions has referred to the novel…
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The New York Poetry Festival
It’s impossible to discuss last weekend’s first ever “free celebration of the poetry world of New York City” without mentioning the fact that it wasn’t in New York City.