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No One Can Take a Bath for You: Why I Write
The other day, a friend of mine said he was giving up writing. This friend happens to be a very good writer. Why? I asked. Too many people already write about the things I write about, he said. I thought…
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Happy Bloomsday!
It’s the 107th anniversary of everybody’s favorite James Joycian holiday! That’s right—Bloomsday, the 24 hr period in which Leopold Bloom makes his way through Dublin in Ulysses. One way to appreciate those 265,000 words is through twitter or there’s always…
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Revolutionary Writing
Revolutionary writing from Ché Guevara, Diary of a Combatant, is being published for the first time in Cuba. The diaries document Ché’s time in Cuba from 1956 through 1958 were postponed due to a case of missing notebooks. “The book…
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Let’s Take a Walk Together
James Yeh writes on the Spontaneous Society for Faster Times, Jon Cotner’s ambulatory, real-life interaction/art installation, inciting strangers to interact positively with one another. The project was created in hopes of reigniting a certain kind of social spontaneity that is…
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Dressed to Kill
I’m probably way behind the times here, but I’ve just discovered this project by artist Megan Rosalarian Gedris in which she cross-dresses male superheroes. But she’s doing more than just changing their outfits–after all, male superheroes in comic books are…
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The Rumpus on NPR’s Talk of the Nation
Yesterday evening, Poetry Editor Brian Spears was interviewed by Talk of the Nation’s Neal Conan about the issue of male privilege and his article on the Amina Affar scandal. The audio and a transcript are available here. Love you Talk…
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33 and Feeling Great
Among myriad literary twitter feeds, the Rumpus shines, listed as one of the “thirty-three twitter feeds to follow,” by Poets and Writers. Thanks P&W!
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Y’all ready to leave the solar system? No thanks, I think I’ll stay here and explore World’s Fairs of the 1930s. Fact: babies love Picasso. (via Gerry Canavan.) I don’t care what you say, I think this Tokyo nightclub is…
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The Limits of Student Speech
“If a high-schooler uses an off-campus computer to create offensive material that relates to his or her school life — writing nasty messages about school administrators or fellow students, for instance — is his or her speech still protected?” The…
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Lucky Peach Y’all
McSweeney’s and David Chang’s new hunger-inducing venture, Lucky Peach, is out now. Check out the McSweeney’s attention in the Wall Street Journal. The first issue is ramen-themed. Being that there’s some sort of transitive property of common interest among those…
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English Takeover
Tim Parks writes on the tensions between lingua franca and vernacular—readers and writers don’t want to be confined to the limits of their national origin, while wanting to keep the vernacular-specific prose. There’s always translation, but is there an English…
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So If You See the Vulture Coming
“So if you see the vulture coming flying circles in your mind remember there is no escaping