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Links That Devolve, As Usual, Into Thoughts on Representativeness in Literature
Every week lately Saturday sneaks up on me. I’ll be sauntering along happily through the week and then suddenly I’m waking up on the weekend and I’m to post here.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I would highly encourage you to check out John Coulthart’s tentacle week posts. Perhaps the 7 dollar Renoir WAS too good to be true. The best part of Google Street…
PANEL BUSTING: The Census
At Oxford American, Rumpus columnist Nick Rombes breaks into the official US census for 1860, chronicling his reaction to the text and the traces left behind by past readers. “Curled…
Cheryl Strayed in SF Today!
Cheryl Strayed will be speaking at California College of the Arts today, for their Writers Series. Thursday, September 27th at 7:00 pm. Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus (1111 Eighth…
#NoHomophobes
“Homophobic language isn’t always meant to be hurtful, but how often do we use it without thinking? So asks NoHomophobes.com, a website “designed as a social mirror to show the…
Sense of Place #1: Amy Lawless, Casa Magazines
A new series from photographer Brad DeCecco, Sense of Place captures authors in places that hold significance to their writing selves or their writing itself.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news everyone! Google sea-view is now! I’m so bored of these tectonic plates, I’m ready for some new ones. Are you very rich? Maybe you’d like to reenact Shackleton’s…
Where I’m Reading – Then and Now
One of the reasons that I left my middle-management job during a recession was because I never had the energy left over to read. In fact, I never had the…
My Heart is an Idiot Book Trailer
Earlier this month, we spoke with Davy Rothbart about the his new collection, My Heart Is an Idiot, lauded in this week’s Rumpus review as “16 essays that read like early…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Is it ok to link to a story about the coming bacon shortage on Yom Kippur? Meanwhile, something to look forward to in 2013, there is a pretty sick new…
New Dictionaries reveal a different liberal and conservative battle
In David Skinner’s The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published we learn about the radical Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language. The…