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Has Your Letter Been Published in My Column?
A letter from Sugar: Dearest sweet peas whose letters have been published in my columns, I need your help. As many of you have suggested, I’m pursuing the possibility of publishing a book of my columns. In the course of…
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Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
The Creosote Journal has posted a write up of last Monday’s Rumpus in San Francisco (beautiful photos included).
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Wikileaks Hypocrisy?
Mediaite linked yesterday to a piece in the New Statesman which reported that Wikileaks has been pressuring members of their staff to sign what they describe as a “draconian” confidentiality agreement. They apparently got the document from former Wikileaks staffer…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
See, it WAS the cell phones. What your literary tote bag says about you (as a writer for the Rumpus and an employee of a non-Green Apple sf bookstore, this conflicts me). It is accidentally illegal to have sex in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes people care about things like literary hair. Vintage art machines are neat! What people draw when they draw about being happy. Patents, you know? Polish posters for American westerns (are pretty much my reason for living).
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A Chicago Street Encounter With a Man Nearly Executed
He drives a white Cadillac stretch limo, vintage 1970s, with whitewall tires, black vinyl roof, leather interior. Smooth ride. It’s the kind of car you might have seen ferrying newlyweds back in its day. But instead of “just married,” painted…
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Suing Google
“French publishers Albin Michel, Flammarion and Gallimard are suing Google for having scanned 9,797 books without prior permission…” Another lawsuit has been launched against the Google Book Search program. (via PW)
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Missing Chicago
Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities didn’t include Chi-Town and the good folks at Chicagoist have taken notice.
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“Eugene ‘I Promise Not to Get into the Drug Scene’ Oregon”
Rumpus readers are having a good time adding cities to Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities map. Why not join in the fun?
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in exciting concepts: Dolphin Talking! Roller Coaster Science! Zombie Ants! Early Aviation! Soviet Kids Textbooks!
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Where I Write #8: The Strange Nooks of Our Bodies
Behind me there’s a bed that hasn’t seen anyone but myself since I purchased it four months ago when I moved across the country, and I make it every morning.
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Real Life Honesty
“‘One of the most important reasons to write, to make art, to make music, to be an artist of any sort, is to connect. To show others, ‘I too have felt this way, share it with me.’ If you try…