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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 Jack Kerouac, if you substituted Charlie Parker for Dr. Dre.”…
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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 comet coming dudes. Let’s talk about 19th Century infographics. News…
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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 stories behind (and in the pages of) these long-titled books show…
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Pussy Riot Jailhouse Interview
“We couldn’t even imagine that the authorities would be so dumb that they would actually legitimize our influence by arresting us. Sure, Tsentr E tried to intimidate us by tailing us constantly. But unlike Putin, we’re not chickenshit—so we didn’t…
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FUNNY WOMEN #86: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis
Did Steve Harvey’s bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man resonate with you? Then you’ll LOVE its nature-inspired spinoff, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis.
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READINGS at the Pop-Hop Shop
If you’re in Los Angeles, head over to the Pop-Hop Shop in Highland Park on Wednesday, September 26th for READINGS, hosted by Rumpus contributor Zoe Ruiz. The event will feature fellow Rumpus rockers Seth Fischer and Melissa Chadburn, along with…
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“My algorithm told me to arrest this man!”
The Wall Street Journal reviews Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, by Christopher Steiner. “In the mid-1970s, Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT railed against depriving humans of their capacity to choose, even if computers could decide everything for us.…
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The Rumpus Loves 826
826 Valencia’s upcoming quarterly anthology of excellent student writing will feature a foreword by our very own Isaac Fitzgerald, along with cover art and illustrations from artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton! This week is the perfect time to support…
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The real Tom Sawyer was a San Francisco Fireman
Not to mention a Mission Street Saloon owner, civil servant, and hero. The Smithsonian Magazine reports on a real-life Tom Sawyer who was one of Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) drinking buddies during the author’s stay in San Francisco in the…
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“This is What the Depression Sounded Like”
Aldo Leopold, ecologist and author of Sand County Almanac took such detailed notes each morning from his back porch that researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have created his “resurrected soundscape” with digital bird calls. “Leopold recognized that you can get a pretty…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I guess it’s getting to be that time of year again, here are the Royal Observatory’s picks for space photos of the year. The internet was invented so I could look at 1929 Soviet avant-garde submissions for a Columbus memorial.…
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Two Dollar Radio launches Frequencies
“Scheduled to publish new volumes every Spring and Fall, Frequencies is a journal imprint of Two Dollar Radio that aims to champion artful or creative non-fiction that aggressively asserts the value of the individual, either through story or voice, in…