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Lin’s New Weekly Venture
Drug-Related Photoshop Art is Tao Lin’s new weekly column in Vice. As per Lin-style poetry, it involves contemporary cultural references interspersed with notable, historical artists. That being said, get ready for weekly laughter!
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Lorelei Lee Will Help You Write
Lorelei Lee, longtime Rumpus contributor, lover of books and creative writing scholar, is teaching “Sex, Death, Laughter, Disease: Writing and the Body,” a six-week class on corporeal creative writing hosted by the Center for Sex and Culture, SF. You can…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #40: Chelsea Biondolillo in Conversation with a Ghost Hunter
My sister is six years younger, and as kids we never got along. In high school, I went through a phase that involved a lot of sneaking out to drink coffee and do pink-hearts with my friends. I had to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes it is hard to keep track of all the rad new animals. Speaking of: wild animal sex! Let’s all watch BART get built, yes? Beautiful parking lots (seem like an oxymoron sometimes). Hurray for Czechoslovakian book covers and postage…
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Changing Our Habits, Not Twitter
Cathy Davidson wrote a response to Bill Keller’s article on the pitfalls of twitter, “The Twitter Trap.” She defends technology with some historical and neuroscience-based evidence, calling for a restructuring of our habits, instead of a complete dismissal of current…
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San Francisco, This Week 5/23-5/29
This week in San Francisco: SMiLE at the Knockout to raise money for the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, SF Popfest gets going at the Rickshaw and CHEESE! at the Academy of Sciences. Monday, May 23 – Tonight, SMiLE (if…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Somehow I missed this back in March: gesture-based touchscreen phone keyboard Swype is available for download again! Laptop batteries that will last three years? Sign me up! Chinese factory Foxconn, which supplies Apple with parts and had a spate of worker…
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MFAs, for Better or for Worse
Creative programs are increasingly common and so are their criticisms. The difficulty with pinpointing creativity to an academic institution or justifying a trend where tuition money and literary prowess are both major contributing factors to success make MFA programs a…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #87
THE RAPTURE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rapture.
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Unhappy Stasis
The Chronicle Review published an essay on the economics of unhappiness and what it means to live in a society where economic growth is considered normal. The growth patterns of our economy have made unhappiness a baseline–we’re reflecting this need…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/23-5/29
This week in New York the Indie Booksellers Choice Awards at Housing Works; Book Expo America runs all week; Emma Donohue, Room, at powerHouse; book launch parties for Vanessa Hidary, Lynne Tillman, and Vanessa Veselka; two storytelling events: Sideshow Goshko…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Have you read Slate’s fascinating (and relevant) article on what happens when doomsday prophecies fail? You totally should! 70’s Italian collage super cosmic action fun times! Victorian alert: Peter Pan in Kensington Garden and Arthur Conan Doyle tricked by fairies. Most…