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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #194
ANTIQUES ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing antiques.
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Notable New York: 8/12-8/18
Monday 08.12 The Franklin Park Reading Series is back this week and is something of a special line-up as they’re featuring a few poets, which is a rare occurrence for the series. The line-up includes the great short story author…
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Little Raw Souls by Steven Schwartz
In the hands of a writer as talented and sensitive as Schwartz, flashy language and exotic vistas turn out not to be necessary.
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Next Letter for Kids: Carolyn Cohagan
The next Letter for Kids, going out August 15, is from Carolyn Cohagan! (It got switched with Elisabeth Dahl’s letter due to a printing error, so it’s going out later than expected, but it’ll still be awesome!) A former stand-up comic…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m back. This one goes out to my Chicago reader. Good news everyone! Our kid’s are getting slightly less fat! This week in dolphins being the best: they can remember their tankmate’s whistles from 20 years earlier. This week in…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Grief Magic
“I’m like an alcoholic who doesn’t drink anything but worst case scenarios…” In the aftermath of trauma, Emily Rapp struggles to give up being “on call” for grief.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Both The Rumpus and The Nervous Breakdown make Flavorwire’s 25 Best Sites for Literature Lovers. I’m kind of beside myself with glee. Apply for a Word Riot travel grant! Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels “everyone should read.”
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Links I Like
Remember when your Rumpus Sunday Editor Gina published fiction? She published Tom Kealy’s Nobody and Allison Amend’s The Stench. Stephen Elliott explained, “We don’t publish fiction on The Rumpus. But on Sunday Gina takes over and she can do whatever…
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/10-8/16
Saturday 8/10: Rob Sheffield presents and signs Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke. 5 p.m. at Book Soup. Julie Doxsee and Andrew Wessels read original poems. 7 p.m. at the Poetic Research Bureau. Sunday 8/11: Roar…
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Saturday Rumpus Poetry: In Japan
Enjoy these two prose poems from Gary Young’s forthcoming collection In Japan.
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The Short Answer
So in order to say why I’m making movies I would have to answer why I write books and maybe, more importantly, why I would ever want to publish a book that I had written. At that point your getting…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is on tour with his band through August 10, but fear not: We’ll still be serving up your morning coffee. This might make you look at the cracks in the wall a little closer But there’s no way you could miss…