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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #39: Luuk Imhann in Conversation with a Fisherman
There’s fisherman who is famous in my town in northern Holland, near the sea. They say he has been around the world a few times, so I thought I would ask him some questions. A very short interview followed.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The internet was invented so I could go through the NYPL’s gallery of scientific and medical pictures. Istanbul’s urban sprawl makes for a good picture of the day. Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of color photography. New Scientist gets you…
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Today’s Fake Interview
We just published an interview with artist, Edie Fake, who was semi-nomadic but is currently Chicago-based. He talks about touring the country on a bus, illustrating thought-projecting nose cones and conflating comic books and animated film styles to create a…
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Revolutionary Wikipedia
All of us Wikipedia users are constantly reaping the benefits of massive information-based collaboration. This essay, published in the Awl, considers why this resource is so essential in our digital age. Anybody who has ever accidently cited Wikipedia on a…
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The SF Dweller
Broke-Ass Stuart’s site-specific musings on the San Francisco living experience are illustrated by our very own comic master, Wendy MacNaughton in the Bold Italic. He breaks down the major SF living points and she makes them into aesthetically pleasing diagrams,…
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Troublesome Tomes
“When you read the kind of novel that promises to increase the strength of your upper-body as much as the height of your brow […] there’s an awe about the scale of the work which, rightly, informs your response to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The future of public transportation is shaped like jellyfish. Amazing (and sort of gross) pictures of food. I’m sure you’ve always wondered why tarantulas poop silk out of their feet. Some dang old fish. Maybe it is time to reconsider…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #86
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Marina and the Diamonds.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 5/16-5/22
This week in San Francisco, Shakespeare gets shaken up a bit for “The Boar’s Head“, grab your skates for a Furry Skate Disco Party and the Portuguese Artists Colony gets Vertigo.
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Tourist Information
Nothin wounded goes uphill… It just don’t happen. I got stuck rereading that sentence on the plane for a long time.
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Notable New York, This Week 5/16-5/22
This week in New York Danzy Senna at BookCourt, Europa turns out its 100th book; I Am Turning Into My Mother six-word stories at 92YTribeca; Steamboat literary comedy series at Greenlight; Tayari Jones reads from Silver Sparrow at Girls Write…