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July’s Rumpus Book Club Selection
Next month’s Rumpus Book Club selection will indeed satisfy your summer fiction cravings. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is Christopher Bouchet’s debut novel, published by Melville House Publishing. The story involves death and road trips, a 1971 VW Bug…
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Stock Poetics
Those of us who can only stomach the stock market when paired with poetry (or vice versa?) may be in need of a mash-up. We are in luck. This week BOMBlog juxtaposes a video on the stock market with poetry…
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Language Therapy
Should doctors be prescribing languages instead of pharmaceuticals? The Nation‘s Ange Mlinko ponders the potentially transformative relationship between a second language and the self.
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Age-Revealing Spit
It turns out those trusty Law and Order-like forensic techniques are now being adopted for another function–the preservation of social norms via the avoidance of seemingly invasive questions! Next time you feel the need to know somebody’s age, but feel…
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Dear Sugar Coming Soon!
For those of you who are feeling the lack of sweet counseling normally provided on Thursdays afternoons, please hold off one more day! Dear Sugar #77 will be coming your way tomorrow morning. These saccharine archives will calm your Sugar…
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Franzen’s Comin’ Over
When you’re playing host for your literary idol, there is a lot of opportunity for panic and embarrassment. Wendy MacLeod recounts Jonathan Franzen’s visit to Kenyon, recalling her anticipatory anxieties, how to avoid sending out stalker-ish vibes, and what it’s…
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Broke-Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Television Show
It all started with a zine, then some Lonely Planet travel guides, a book deal via Craigslist, the goddamn website,
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope you guys are ready for hella space garbage next week. 100 plus years of Olympic posters (are neat). In the future we will all drive around in electric diwheels. You know what else is cool? Dutch mystery novel…
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Love for Feministing
Feministing, the esteemed online feminist community, highlighted our very own Elissa Bassist’s interview with sex-positive feminist Susie Bright (which is still very smart and very funny, if you haven’t dabbled yet). Thanks for the shout-out, Feministing. The love is mutual!
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Philip K. Dick: “Ignore the bad patches, just keep reading”
Explore the many different ways of reading and understanding the writings of Philip K. Dick, particularly the unsettling yet enticing allure of his “unquotable prose”.
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Monetary Support for Indie Bookstores
Anybody who appreciates the community value of their local independent bookstore knows about the monetary pressure imposed by Amazon and internet-based competitors. So if you really appreciate the value of independent booksellers and the literary community it supports, why shouldn’t…
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Regarding John Ross’ Ashes: A Very Specific Request
Let’s collectively remember John Ross, a “relentless political and literary experimenter” with revolutionary tendencies. Best known for his book Murdered by Capitalism and his coverage of the Zapatistas movement in Mexico, where he spent a significant portion of his life,…