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Brazilian Poets These Days
Contemporary Brazilian poetry occupies one of those interesting post-revolution free spaces where anything can happen. After the poetic products of the military dictatorship and the national identity-searching, and the Tropicalia movement, contemporary Brazilian poetry had an opportunity to be apolitical…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am about to go to through the Southwest, which is part of why I am in love with 1950s atomic bomb test photos. Robo-worm is coming to save the day! Second homes for leisure living(hurray). Y’all ready for a…
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The Revolution Is Incomplete
It is tempting to read the photos of last week’s renewed conflict in Tahrir Square as yet another isolated round of violence between the Egyptian youth and the Central Security Forces. But this subverts the root of the rage in…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week, 7/5-7/10
This week in San Francisco, get to Slim’s for old and new honky tonk at Rattle and Rye, the Booksmith presents Literary Clown Foolery and Fort Mason hosts the Renegade Craft Fair. Tuesday, July 5th – If you survived the…
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Sweet Deal!
Rumpus readers are getting a sweet deal! The good folks over at Litquake are hosting an event on July 10th called the New Literary Vanguard, in which they will “delve into the minds of the new generation of American male…
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The Thirty-Second Story
Inspired by “Jeopardy!,” this Book Bench article explores “the thirty-second story.” The anxiety-inducing nature of composing a memoir in thirty seconds is explored through discussion with former contestants of the show and by imploring other Book Benchers to compose their…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Get out of the way grandpa spider! Phone-call cartography is a pretty neat way to think about things. Pigeons understand that you hate them (personally). Sometimes we all want to ride the birthday fish. Let’s all look inside a tarantula.
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Notable New York, This Week 7/04-7/10
This week in New York, Sapphire reads from her new book, The Kid; Kick Assonance poetry reading; Tayari Jones reads from Silver Sparrow; The Center for Fiction reading of No Rest for the Dead; the Akashic All-Stars party at Greenlight…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’re going to be keeping it quiet around these parts today. Happy Fourth of July dudes.
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Wilson/Huggins: Kissing America’s Heart
Last month I announced my candidacy for Office of the President of the United States of America.
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Dan Savage (and readers) on Monogamy
If you’re anything like me, after you’ve finished reading an article, you head straight for the comments section to see what your fellow human beings have to say. I recently spent a chunk of my afternoon reading a seven-page article…
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You Can’t Read Everything
“I had gone through and thought about the number of books you could conceivably read in a year, for example. And then if you extrapolate it out over your lifetime, how many can you reasonably read? And it got me…