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Four Years For the Price of One
Our very own Stephen Elliott on his favorite books of 2010 (but really 2009, 2008, and 2007).
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day another South Korean parrot looking dinosaur. Let’s talk about the worlds most expensive book, shall we? Sometimes, when it comes to large rolling mechanical planetariums, you just have to take things into your own hands. Butterfly house art.…
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Composing the Wilderness: An Essay on the Nested and Dynamic Model of Nature, Humanity, and Technology
In July, 2010, I delivered a keynote address at Goddard College’s MFA Writing residency in Port Townsend, Washington, on the theme “Composing the Wilderness.” This essay is included in an anthology of addresses given by Goddard College MFA faculty, to…
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Rock L.A. with Rumpus Women!
Hey Los Angeles! Please join us TONIGHT, December 7, at 7:30 pm, for a Rumpus Women reading featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Antonia Crane, Kathleen Alcott and Julie Greicius. Hosted by Stephen Elliott. The reading will be at Traveler’s Bookcase, an intimate,…
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Wikileaks Roundup
Julian Assange was arrested today in Britain. Here’s some background on the charges* Assange has an editorial in today’s Australian. How is Wikileaks like L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry? Visa and Mastercard have cut off Wikileaks too, and will likely face the same…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A little Northern Lights porn for you. Nerd news of the week: Lieberman wants to create S.H.I.E.L.D. for reals. A look at some pretty rad museums. Any opportunity to discuss secret government space planes is one that must be seized…
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Ted Wilson reviews the World #64
SUPERMAN ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Superman.
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Notable New York, This Week 12/6 – 12/12
This week in New York, FSG Reading Series is back, ASK ME celebrates the holidays, Denis Leary tells us to Suck on this Year, Gigantic celebrates with tacos, Darin Strauss defends the memoir for the Brooklyn New School, Tom Bissell and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why pandas don’t want to eat you (anymore). The Atlantic brings you your great ideas of 2010. Monday is a good day for octopus based propaganda. On Einstein’s fridge. Let us end today with some snarky British street art.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
We don’t do end-of-the-year lists here at The Rumpus–we don’t do lists in general–but I’m very much in favor of linking to gift recommendations, so here’s Ron Slate
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Wikileaks Roundup
First it was Amazon dumping Wikileaks from its servers (though how much Senator Lieberman had to do with it is up for debate), which raises some real questions for everyone who wants to put their data in the cloud. Now…