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Keep Your “Malcolm Gladwell” in Your Pants
“The book’s hero, Dave, is a resident of the lusty alternate universe known as the House of Holes, a kind of sex tourism Hogwarts. At one point, Dave invites a woman to watch a dirty movie in the campus’s 12-projection…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I’m in Denver, where I grew up, dodging a miller moth invasion (the smell of one burning in a halogen lamp always makes me think of home), babysitting a good friend’s two year old son, and reading through book blogs.…
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Some Potentially Good News
“You’ve probably got only two years to live.” — Former HIV patient Timothy Brown’s partner, in 1995, after Brown was diagnosed with HIV. He now, after a blood treatment for leukemia and HIV, appears to be completely free of the…
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Saturday Morning Links
Good morning, all. Today, I’ll be stepping in for Brian Spears, who’s getting married this weekend. Congratulations, Amy and Brian, from everyone at The Rumpus! Now, links! In case you missed it, V.S. Naipaul recently said “I don’t think so”…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe you’ve already seen this, but dang if this amphibious ice cream truck isn’t the best thing of the week. Also, in England, the benches sound like Alan de Botton. Don’t mess with Truman’s daughter. For that matter, don’t mess…
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Lying Artists
Artists and certain brain damage patients have overlapping tendencies—lying or “chronic confabulation,” in neuroscience vernacular. The difference is in that writers fabricate experiences and consciously control their associations whereas people who have incurred frontal lobe damage may be unable to…
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Brush Up on Your Literary Feuds
Whitehead v. Ford Egan v. Weiner Rushdie v. Updike Writers duel with their words, though sometimes there’s spit involved. Flavorwire has a list of 10 notorious literary spats.
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‘To a Restless Little Brother’
“You may not understand this now, but she isn’t coming back. Not tonight. Not tomorrow. Day after that. And no, she hasn’t left anything behind — a sticky note on the refrigerator door or a quick message for the answering…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known world, deepest living thing! Let’s talk about profanity in the New Yorker. Fact: there are some very large numbers in the world. Coming soon: actual useful jetpacks.
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Rafah Crossing
Approaching the Rafah crossing on the morning of its historic opening, I pass a lone Palestinian woman in her mid 20’s holding a newborn, walking into Egypt. Twenty yards behind her, sweltering in the late morning desert sun is a…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #43: Alana Voth in Conversation with Her Facebook Friend, Terry Gearlds
Terry Gearlds and I have never met. We’re friends on Facebook. We share some stuff in common like True Blood and horror movies. Also, anytime either of us see a picture of Bradley Cooper with no shirt on our nipples…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Am I the only person who thinks falconry is fascinating? I probably shouldn’t be linking to Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner, but I am going to. By the way, Eternal Sunshine is totally coming scientifically true. Submarine insignia…