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Happy Mother’s Day! Time to diet?
Apparently, Barnes & Noble thinks your mom is fat and needs to start dieting: the company sent an e-mail to it’s subscribers with a Mother’s Day gift list and the most prominently featured book was a diet book. The book…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
A fascinating interview with Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez. (via) File under signs of the apocalypse: The Meowmorphisis. Oscar Villalon wonders who The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature was really written for. “The Intimate Orwell.“
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Self Lit: The Reading
Think of it, perhaps, as a mini-Rumpus, south Florida style, tonight at 8:00 p.m at The Projects in FAT Village. This is the literary component of the Self Lit Art Show, featuring readings by Rumpus contributors Amy Letter, Emma Trelles,…
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The Avatars of Vishnu
Via Rumpus Contributor Michael Hollander, here’s some great art and an even better story from Nina Paley about some work she did for the Brooklyn Museum. It might seem dry–she talks a lot about contracts and Creative Commons licenses–but in…
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Science Saturday
So, global warming isn’t happening? Tell that to the people who will starve because crop yields are down due to hotter temperatures. Computer scientists at the University of Texas-Austin have induced schizophrenic symptoms in a computer. I am made unreasonably…
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Saturday Morning Links
My eyes are taking some time to focus this morning, so I’m occasionally lifting my glasses and putting my nose on my laptop screen. No idea why you would need to know that. Haven’t read one of these stories in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe we all came from this dude. Life aboard a spy plane (way to go world). Similarly: let’s all check out James Bond first editions. How to swim in the 17th Century. Lastly: BIRD HATS.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Something’s in the air, feelin’ pretty sciencey. But first here are some pictures of clouds. This totally explains how my identity got stolen by a koala. Maybe we all came from asteroids! Maybe animals can breathe for us. Maybe we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
First things first: DON’T EAT ARMADILLOS. Norway, Photochrom style. The Social Animal is a really weird book. Here are some things made out of staples. Also Ottoman architecture is pretty great.
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A Disappearing Past
There are currently two living veterans from World War I. Pondering what it means to be the last first-hand witnesses to an era or a major historical event is the subject of Evan Fleischer’s essay, published in the Awl. He…
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Spotlighting the Editor
An enlightening Paris Review interview with Robert Gottlieb, a veteran editor/publisher whose editorial touch you have undoubtedly experienced. The editorial process is after all, its own art form that is not wholly visible to readers. Esteemed authors (Toni Morrison, Joseph…