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Read The Pop-Up Restaurant!
We don’t know which publication first reported about The Pulitzer’s rumored lambskin vellum menu, written with Nano-Carbon archival ink. Nor do we have a goddamn clue which food critic first told the world about how their specially weighted Palladium alloy…
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Videos of the New Yorker Festival
If you missed The New Yorker Festival, you can click here to see Rumpus interviewees Karen Russell and Junot Díaz talk to New Yorker’s Willing Davidson about children characters and fantasy genre, as well as Rumpus Book Club interviewee George…
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #2: “Rid of Me”
“I very much wanted to write songs that shocked,” PJ Harvey recently told Spin about her early career. “All I wanted to do was shock with my artwork. When I wrote ‘Rid of Me,’ I shocked myself.”
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Live Like The Most Creative People In History
Get up early? Walk around in the nude? Do you breakfast on opium and croissants? Then you are sharing the same creative habits of people like Hemingway, Franklin and Proust. Hint: lunchtime martinis do not help productivity!
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
News update: being buried alive is basically the scariest possible thing. I don’t really know if I like this or not, but I’m going to link to these hand-written texts anyway. I absolutely like these Japanese straw monsters though. This…
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Longreads Starts Membership Drive
If you’re a fan of longform writing, fiction or nonfiction, consider subscribing to Longreads. They’re holding a membership drive to help keep the site going; you can choose between $3/month or $30/year memberships, both of which give you access to…
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New Members-Only Club in SF Raises Questions
Inside the Musto Building, a space in San Francisco’s Financial District that once housed a marble mill and a candy warehouse, a pair of Internet multimillionaires has founded a members-only club called the Battery. It includes a wine cellar, a spa, and a…
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American Adults Get Worse at Reading
Well, this is terrifying: The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey. What’s more, over the last two decades Americans’ reading proficiency has declined…
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Notable Los Angeles 10/14 – 10/20
Monday 10/14: Victoria Redel presents and signs Make Me Do Things. 7:00 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 10/15: Brenda Stevenson discusses and signs The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. Riots. 7:00 p.m.…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #203
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing NASA.
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What Makes a Good Editor?
In a conversation for the Slate Book Review, author Donna Tartt and her editor Michael Pietsch talk through the experience of editing her latest novel from both sides of the red pen. It’s a fascinating insight into the near-magical possibilities of…
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Book Release Party for Writing That Risks
When our extremely cool party with A Strange Object this Thursday ends, you can mosey over to “the book release party for Writing That Risks—an international anthology with a Left Coast sensibility.” Held at San Francisco’s Alley Cat Books, the party…