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Okay, all you (us) iPhoniacs out there–who’ll be the first to come up with an App to make sure we become the downloader of the billionth app? Dan Kennedy channels…
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Morning Coffee
1930’s Spanish low-budget Art Deco. Sometimes it’s hard to fight the temptation to turn this whole section into awesome pictures of typeface. Leaked audition tapes for the National Organization for…
Glenn Kenny on Editing David Foster Wallace
Film writer and former Premiere editor and critic Glenn Kenny talks about his experience editing David Foster Wallace for that magazine in the mid-to-late 90s and his friendship with the…
It’s No Bullshit!
Although George Carlin is renowned for his standup comedy, a career more prolific than that of any other modern practitioner of the form, he had some fascinating detours along the…
Joel Arquillos: The Last Book I Loved, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I absolutely loved Junot Diaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I never thought a story about the childhood I lived would make an interesting novel, but I…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Just a reminder that we here at The Rumpus are posting a poem a day for National Poetry Month, so enjoy some never before published work by some up-and-coming poets.…
The Danger of Law Enforcement Puritans
This is the face of the new witch hunter–Jim Plowman, the Loudon County VA Commonwealth’s attorney, who tried to prosecute an educator for possession of child porn when the educator…
Saturday Morning Links
It’s still morning somewhere right? Late night equals late start. More goodness from The TED Conference–this time, it’s an interface that allows you to put a screen wherever you need…
Amy Letter: A Poem I Love
The last poem I loved is “Strongly Scented Sonnet” by Rhoda Janzen. It’s vivid and perverse, a bit disgusting, yet the most palpably romantic poem I have ever read. A…
In the Art Rags
Despite–or maybe to spite–bitter winds, spring is in the air. The art world and its rags are responding in kind. In Oslo, rabbits are about to do funny things with…