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Amazon Sales Tax Battle Roundup
Amazon.com has been battling with states across the country over whether or not the company should collect sales taxes. The company’s practice of not collecting sales taxes in most states makes it difficult for brick-and-mortar stores to compete with their…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/14-3/20
This week in New York, Jane Eyre readings at Housing Works Bookstore Café, Karen Russell and Wells Tower at the New York Public Library, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sex Worker…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert day 3: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? I will happily spend all my time looking at mid-century modern advertisements. Travel Norway, the architectural way! Let’s take a moment to appreciate the…
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Look Back in Horror: The Rumpus Interview with David Sirota
David Sirota writes a weekly column that appears in dozens of newspapers. He has his own radio show. And he’s a frequent guest on cable TV gabfests. These facts should qualify Sirota as a pundit. But it feels wrong –…
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A More Than Interesting Night
The Rumpus and Wave Books Proudly Presents: “A More Than Interesting Night” March 14th The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm Click Here to Purchase Tickets! Featuring authors Andrew Altschul, Joshua Mohr, Beverly Parayno, and Timothy Donnelly! With a performance…
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How Marriage Impacts Men’s Health
The Atlantic has two articles about longitudinal studies: the Harvard Study of Adult Development, begun in 1937, which followed the lives of Harvard sophomore men for over 70 years to study their physical and mental health and The Longevity Project,…
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The Rise of the Grief Memoir
“Grief, all of a sudden, is hot. Books by authors who have lost a loved one are becoming so common they’re now a classifiable snowflake in the unending blizzard of memoirs” —The Millions on grief memoirs and what makes them…
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Print a Book While You Wait
“McNally Jackson in New York is one of a growing number of bookstores that can print on demand. The store has recently installed an Espresso Book Machine, a printer that can produce a high-quality paperback in just a few minutes.…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
As I mentioned at the end of the Poetry Book Club chat with Noelle Kocot (the edited version will run Tuesday, I believe), I have started a Rumpus Poetry Facebook page. So there’s yet another way for everyone to keep…
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Kickstart This
Tony Comstock, an award-winning filmmaker, has a new project. I’ll let him tell you what it’s all about. “The Boi Meets Girl Meets the MPAA project will submit BRETT AND MELANIE to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA.org) and…
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Science Saturday
Most of the links this week will deal with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The biggest issue I have personally with nuclear power is that while things don’t often go wrong, when they do they have the ability to…