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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…
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Dear New York Times: Knock it off
Sorry if I seem a little obsessive about James O’Keefe, but this kind of crap really bothers me. The NY Times published a piece yesterday titled “Partisans Adopt Deceit as a Tactic for Reports” which included a nice big photo…
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Saturday Morning Links
Remember that uncontroversial controversy over NPR that resulted in a couple of resignations? Turns out–and this should be absolutely no surprise–that James O’Keefe selectively edited the video to make Schiller’s comments seem more inflammatory than they really were. We’re at…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #6
The final dispatch from Benjamin Morris, who covered New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011 for The Rumpus: The problem of Mardi Gras—of the day itself, Fat Tuesday—is that you only have one body. Consider the map of the day. Uptown, you…
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Are You a Romantic? Friday Book Club Round-Up
Roxane Gay examines Lidia Yuknavitch‘s Chronology of Water, the current Rumpus Book Club selection. Her review is organized into handy sections, and she ends with an affirmative: “I will just say I fucking loved this book and I strongly encourage…
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A Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Update
I’m not going to try to bring you breaking news on this story–the situation is too fluid, and you don’t come to The Rumpus for that sort of story anyway, at least I don’t think you do. Instead I’m going…