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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #38: Alana Noël Voth in Conversation with Her Best Friend, Judy Salamon
I’ve known Judy Salamon two years. We work together, and she’s one of the main reasons I enjoy my job. Judy tells the best stories. She’s also a kind and accepting person. After meeting her the first time my son…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Polish book covers hurrah huzzay. Contrary to popular belief, the Germans are very happy. S imilarly: no one actually has blue eyes. Thursdays are good days for artist books. Everyday is a good day for space volcanoes.
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National Poetry Month Day 7: “Jack Gilbert” by P. Scott Cunningham
Jack Gilbert Love is everything though of course, love dies leaving you in agony and then you die and worms crawl in and out of your skull.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #81
YESTERDAY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing yesterday.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #37: Rachel Ann Brickner in Conversation with Varun Bhandari
Varun and I met shortly before we graduated from college, and then I moved across the country. We remained in good touch until he visited me. We fought and then we didn’t talk for a long while until now. This…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“I am only six but I think I can do this job.” Wasn’t a laughter epidemic the Joker’s evil plot in Tim Burton’s Batman movie? (via Gerry Canavan.) The NY Times celebrates the life of Thomas Eisner and you probably…
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National Poetry Month Day 6: “Certain Slant” by T. R. Hummer
Certain Slant Concertina music breaks its foam on the haberdashery window, a murder ballad so old even the monkey knows the words
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in anthropomorphic vegetables. . . X-rays are the best way to discover new species. Everyone knows this is true. Mummies aren’t really that scary if you consider that most of them have heart problems. The Woodpecker Book (I…
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National Poetry Month Day 5: “The Great Wave” by Barbara Jane Reyes
The Great Wave After Hokusai First, the sea took the shore. She surged and sucked up the sand and gravel, all the soil and clay. She plucked twisted trees from the earth as if they were turnips. Herons nesting in…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Will the Libyan war mean the end of .ly startups? (No, those URLs weren’t created just for twitter.) Apple controls its app system too tightly and Android’s a mess. What’s an app developer to do? AOL, the new owner of…
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British Prisoners Take Poetry Seriously
I don’t know what I love most about this story from Britain. British prisoners are outraged because a fellow prisoner won second prize in a poetry contest by entering a Philip Larkin poem as his own. The prisoners are mad,…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/04-4/10
This week in New York a book party for Jim Shepard (with beer); a reading from the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature winner and finalists; actors perform short stories from Etgar Keret and Jonathan Safran Foer at…