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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Best local news? Woman riding manatee spurs police hunt. Swedish movie posters of the 20s and 30s (are great). Schrodinger cat remains defiantly alive. Can we please make the aerotrain a reality? On the great New England vampire panic.
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When We Allow the Imagination to Roam Free
At The New Yorker, Saturday Rumpus editor Michelle Dean explores what Mitt Romney might learn from Wallace Stevens. “This embedded idea, that there was something liberating in the elimination of risk, led Stevens to write approvingly in that company journal…
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BookCrossing
If you’re into the extremely rad tradition of sharing books, which we know you are, you’ll probably be thrilled by BookCrossing… BookCrossing is a social media network that facilitates the sharing of books and the establishment of connections between fellow…
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Alice Walker on Censorship
Guernica interviews Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and one of the most censored contemporary writers, in honor of Banned Books Week. The Color Purple has been voted off school curriculums and out of school libraries many times since…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Actual morning coffee. Important news: octopuses are great! More important news: maybe being depressed is secretly great! No curves for British children. Far too impractical. Slug based art is the best art,
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FUNNY WOMEN #87: Delusions of Grandeur
I told him that I was a novelist and modeled in between books to support the online charity I’d founded to send unwanted makeup to women abroad.
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Lit Crawl: “On Hands and Knees”
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “On Hands and Knees” Lit Crawl Phase 3: Saturday, Oct 13th, 8:30 – 9:30 pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. With readings from Gina Frangello, Lorelei Lee, Rob Roberge, and Emily Rapp! Music…
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Post-Publication Predicament
“Hi, God? I can’t think of anything more humiliating than getting sued for libel by someone no one’s ever heard of over a book no one actually bought, let alone read. Can You? Wait… don’t answer that.” At The Awl,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you’d like to see a glock being fired underwater. Let us now discuss the lost states. Good news! Maggot farms will save us all. 50 years of New York Film Festival posters. If you are exploring the arctic, don’t…
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Congratulations!
Scroll down to the most recent Rumpus Sunday Interview, the one where Sunday Editor Gina Frangello writes “I was going to use the word “genius,” but maybe that’s not quite right for a man who spends seventeen years honing one…
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The Silent History
Today, Adam Levin (author of Rumpus Book Club hit selection The Instructions) talks with Kevin Moffett, a co-author of The Silent History, the recently released novel written as an app. Yesterday, The New York Times focused on the tech side…