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Notable San Francisco, This Week 6/06-6/12
This week in San Francisco, Quiet Lightening strikes at 111 Minna with Rob Brezsny of Free Will Astrology fame, Michael Krasny hosts an evening with Vendela Vida and Jennifer Egan and it’s Dine About Town time all over the city.
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Notable New York, This Week 6/06-6/12
This week in New York begins the best season in New York, festivals, street fairs, and sunshine. Shakespeare in the Park begins with “Measure for Measure,” Literary Trivia Night at KGB Bar, Singing writers at WORD, a summer-camp-themed book party…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Soviet science illustrations? Yes please! Similarly: Old pictures of Teloscopes. Also: Welcome to the real world, heaviest elements. Oh, and: Hurray for cuttlefish! They can’t all be scientific: 70s Cuban film posters!
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Sunday Afternoon Links
“Mr. Eco, I noticed that I’ve never seen a new novel blurbed by you. Is that because you’ve never been asked? Allow me to be the first! Please find attached my new breathtaking and magisterial novel Children of Parents. Blurb…
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Keep Your “Malcolm Gladwell” in Your Pants
“The book’s hero, Dave, is a resident of the lusty alternate universe known as the House of Holes, a kind of sex tourism Hogwarts. At one point, Dave invites a woman to watch a dirty movie in the campus’s 12-projection…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I’m in Denver, where I grew up, dodging a miller moth invasion (the smell of one burning in a halogen lamp always makes me think of home), babysitting a good friend’s two year old son, and reading through book blogs.…
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Some Potentially Good News
“You’ve probably got only two years to live.” — Former HIV patient Timothy Brown’s partner, in 1995, after Brown was diagnosed with HIV. He now, after a blood treatment for leukemia and HIV, appears to be completely free of the…
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Saturday Morning Links
Good morning, all. Today, I’ll be stepping in for Brian Spears, who’s getting married this weekend. Congratulations, Amy and Brian, from everyone at The Rumpus! Now, links! In case you missed it, V.S. Naipaul recently said “I don’t think so”…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe you’ve already seen this, but dang if this amphibious ice cream truck isn’t the best thing of the week. Also, in England, the benches sound like Alan de Botton. Don’t mess with Truman’s daughter. For that matter, don’t mess…
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Lying Artists
Artists and certain brain damage patients have overlapping tendencies—lying or “chronic confabulation,” in neuroscience vernacular. The difference is in that writers fabricate experiences and consciously control their associations whereas people who have incurred frontal lobe damage may be unable to…
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Brush Up on Your Literary Feuds
Whitehead v. Ford Egan v. Weiner Rushdie v. Updike Writers duel with their words, though sometimes there’s spit involved. Flavorwire has a list of 10 notorious literary spats.