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Beth Lisick’s “Tell You What” reading and signing
If you’re going to be in San Francisco February 9th, be sure not to miss “Tell You What” at 3:00-4pm: a reading/variety event made possible by Creativity Explored. Creativity Explored and its artists are the inspiration and content source for renowned…
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McSweeney’s & The Rumpus Rock AWP
McSweeney’s & The Rumpus Proudly Present: A Night of Readings and Music at 826 Boston! Click Here to Purchase Tickets! Friday, March 8th, 7pm at 826 Boston (3035 Washington St. Roxbury, MA 02119) Tickets are $5. All proceeds will be donated…
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“a flaming Apache helicopter flown by a nude Vladimir Putin”
Kottke linked to our Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football. Thanks, Kottke! We love you back!
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Wright’s Anna Karenina: Noble Failure?
Amanda Shubert’s essay “Love in Excess: Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina” takes two of Wright’s film adaptations, Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007), and perceptively compares and contrasts them to Anna Karenina (2012). According to Shubert, Anna Karenina is a “mess”…
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Radioactive Mongolian Dinosaurs and the People Who Love Them
Here are some subjects with which this (extremely long) New Yorker article concerns itself:
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Why Celebrity Gossip Is Actually Kind of Important
Here’s something to look forward to: Anne Helen Petersen’s “Scandals of Classic Hollywood” column, which we blogged about previously, is becoming a book! If you simply can’t wait for the publishing-industry process to put that book in your hands, you…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Life’s greatest mystery revealed: sup with owl necks? If you are need of some medieval torture equipment this is your lucky weekend. The harshest rejection is Satan’s rejection. Maybe the craziest thing I’ve read this week: science has created a…
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AWID elects sex worker for the first time
Kay Thi Win has been elected to the International Board of the Association of Women in Development (AWID). Win is a sex worker, advocate, and the chairperson of the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers. Watch or read the speech she gave at the…
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SOME GUY’S GIRLFRIEND FUCKED HIM OVER
Tomorrow evening, The Chris Gethard Show will take the stage at Eureka Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest. The title of the show is “Some Guy’s Girlfriend Fucked Him Over.” Here’s why: Our entire show on Friday will involve tormenting the boyfriend of…
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Saeed Jones Joins BuzzFeed!
We’re thrilled that Rumpus contributor Saeed Jones is the new editor of BuzzFeed LGBT. Read the just-released BuzzFeed LGBT manifesto, and we’re sure you’ll share our excitement. Another reason to celebrate: Saeed’s first BuzzFeed piece, “How Men Fight for Their Lives” was…
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Book Industry Forecast
Who doesn’t want to validate their decision to purchase an e-book by seeing it in physical form at a bookstore first? At Melville House, Dennis Johnson discusses how the rapid demise of Barnes & Noble is slowly sucking the life out…
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Fifty Nifty United States with New Names and Equal Populations
The Electoral College’s credibility may have taken a blow a few years back, but Neil Freeman has a plan to fix it: simply redistrict the entire country so that all fifty states have the same amount of people in them.…