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“I Might Really Geek Out Here, Dude”
In 2005, Elizabeth Gilbert was a mid-list author with some fiction and some journalism under her belt. In 2006, she tried something new and published a memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. The rest is history and Oprah Book Club sales. Now she’s returned…
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The Weirdest Costumes You’ve Ever Seen
Switzerland: country of chocolate, chalets, and…a traditional costume of a freaky, faceless rope man, with bells attached in random places? French photographer Charles Fréger traveled Europe, taking pictures of the costumes used in centuries-old pagan rituals that still survive in…
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Country Music’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriends
Why is it that despite country music’s overall conservatism and exaltation of rural, small-town culture, female country artists routinely write songs that would make a simple country farmer’s eyes bug out? Why do the men sing about inoffensive, patriotic good…
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The 2013 Great Write Off Is Here!
Today marks the first day of this year’s Great Write Off, an annual literary fundraiser in Michigan. Much like walk-a-thon-style fundraisers, the Great Write Off asks people to sponsor teams of writers and pledge money for each page they write.…
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/23 – 9/29
Monday 9/23: Peter Mehlman and Richard Kramer come to discuss their experiences, tips, and tricks at From TV to Books and Back. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 9/24: Literary Death Match returns to L.A. after a globe-hopping tour. Featuring…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This isn’t even fun anymore: 3 more super-earths found. Our schizophrenic’s voices are much more violent than other countries. Perhaps you’d like to peruse a 1970s Sears catalog. I demand more Soviet design, more more! Important news: aye-ayes are great…
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Detroit: America’s Ciudad Juárez
Even before there was a war in Ciudad Juárez, I remember that Juárez had the feel of a war zone. It wasn’t until I visited Detroit for the first time that I rediscovered this feeling all over again.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Have you heard about the American Writers Museum? The Little Village That Could: New Mexico’s Madrid (home of Rumpus alum Emily Rapp) rallies after a serious flood. Patrick O’Neil leaves his sex buddy hanging…uh…literally, over at The Weeklings. The Rise…
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826 VALENCIA DAYS
The school year has begun, and this essay from Tom Kealey illustrates an afternoon-in-the-life of a volunteer at the San Francisco tutoring center 826 Valencia
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The Way Minds Are Constructed
They’ll say, I don’t read fiction because it isn’t real. This is incredibly naive. In a recent interview with The Paris Review, Ursula K. Le Guin discusses the merits of genre writing and the importance of fiction as a vehicle…
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The Passage of Ideas
Every day, we collectively produce millions of books’ worth of writing. Globally we send 154.6 billion emails, more than 400 million tweets, and over 1 million blog posts and around 2 million blog comments on WordPress. On Facebook, we post…
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Zeina Abirached
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.