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“Take Me Home”
We are proud to announce our upcoming monthly event, “Take Me Home.” July’s event features spoken word performer Rich Ferguson and brilliant authors Meg Day, Alexandra Teague, and Jesse Ball. We’ll supply the humor fix with the comedy stylings of…
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Battling E-Pirates
What happens when a philosophy professor takes on e-piracy? He discovers that it’s not quite as cut and dried as he first thought. Let me be clear–the issue of whether or not his work was pirated is clear. It unquestionably…
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Is Me Really Monster?
Via McSweeneys: “When me get back to apartment, after cookie binge, me can’t stand looking in mirror—fur matted with chocolate-chip smears and infested with crumbs. Me try but me never able to wash all of them out. Me don’t think…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #91
PONIES ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing ponies.
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Look At How Much Fun We’re Having!
These are some beautiful photos of your literary peers at “Cold Summer Nights,” last week’s monthly Rumpus event. If you missed this one, don’t stress. Our July 11th event, “Take Me Home,” is guaranteed to look this good (Click here…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 6/20-6/26
This week in San Francisco, Daniel Orozco visits the Booksmith, SFSmiles throws a party for dads and Hard French parties for Pride. Monday, June 20th – Author Daniel Orozco is gracing San Francisco with his presence, and we are ecstatic to…
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Notable New York, This Week 6/20-6/26
This week in New York Desperately Seeking Susan at the River to River Festival; Kate Christensen and Gerald Howard at The Center for Fiction; Pete Hamill reads at Bryant Park; The Soundtrack Series; The L Life: Extraordinary Lesbians Making a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If I am reading this right, all IT people are autistic. I would like to live my life inside a converted French Art Deco swimming pool. Behold the Russian Wizard of Oz. (via BibliOdyssey.) Holy cow, memory implants! Most importantly:…
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Dad & Daughter: Nine Years of Bedtime Stories
Happy Father’s Day! Here’s a feel-good daddy story from NPR: When Alice Ozma was a fourth-grader, she and her dad, Jim Brozina, made a pact to read together every night for 100 days. At the end of the 100 days,…
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Tortuous Dictionary Definitions
“The notorious definition for door runs to 72 words, written as if the dictionary’s audience were Martians who had never encountered human-made doors. The single statement for hotel is even more bizarre: weighing in at 91 words, it manages to…
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Recycling-Plus!
Scientists in Japan have discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces. No, I’m not shitting you. “Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the…