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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #76
WILSON, THE JEOPARDY! ROBOT ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Wilson, the Jeopardy! robot.
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Notable New York, This Week 2/28-3/06
This week in New York the 92nd Street Y focuses on “Literature and Revolution in the Middle East,” readings from Granta and Flatmancrooked, the Third Annual Chapbook Festival, Kevin Young reads from his new collection, and First Saturday at the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in “exciting” Flickr galleries: iconography of justice and mid-century corporate design! Let’s talk a bit about Walt Disney’s Magic Highway (USA). The Book of Eclipses. This is why I hate you. (I don’t really hate you.)
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Book Release Party for Wesley Stace
The Rumpus and Flavorpill Present: The book release party for Wesley Stace’s new novel: Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer February 27 at Amnesia, 853 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 7pm Featuring Wesley Stace! Music by John Wesley Harding and Tiny Television! Comedy…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
You would not believe the crazy crap that’s happened the last two times I tried to do this column, but I’m back at least for this week. For Rumpus Poetry Book Club members, save this Tuesday for our conversation with…
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The Big Lie About the Wisconsin Pension Story
Turns out that what Governor Walker is asking public sector workers to do in Wisconsin isn’t contribute more toward their pension–he wants them to take a pay cut. See, the pension system in Wisconsin–like most pension systems nationwide–is funded by…
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Science Saturday
Sulfuric acid doesn’t dissolve a corpse quite as quickly as the mafia claims. From China a fossil of a walking cactus. A frigging walking cactus. Space Shuttle Discovery launched for the final time Friday, and here are some great views…
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Saturday Morning Links
You know who just got another shipment of authors copies of his debut book of poetry? This guy. Harper Collins tells libraries they can check out e-books 26 times before they’ll be locked up. The sad thing is that Harper…
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Skating with Beethoven
In 1927, the book The House Without Windows was called “almost unbearably beautiful.” The author, Barbara Follett, was only 13. When Barbara was lonely, the child prodigy would pretend that “that Beethoven, the two Strausses, Wagner, and the rest of…
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The Writers of the Future
While many wonder about the future of printed books, author Lauren Groff imagines those books’ future writers. In one of her many visions, she tells us, “The writer of the future will crouch in wind-swept aeries miles above the electronic…