Books
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Anarchist Book Gets a Boost From Beck
“But even before the official pub date, The Coming Insurrection benefited from an ‘endorsement’ from Glenn Beck. As part of a seven-minute rant on Fox News in July, he said, ‘I am not calling for a ban on this book.…
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San Francisco’s Demographic Shift
“San Francisco’s Marcus Books has long been a gathering place for African-American authors such as Maya Angelou. But last year, manager Blanche Richardson faced the realization that the 50-year-old bookstore might have to close, the victim of a mix of…
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Morning Coffee
Now even earlier! I have a thing about redheads. The top ten books written by librarians. Matthew Rainwaters looks at the Texas criminal justice system. Why yes, I would like a giant chandelier made out of old light bulbs. The…
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Staying Alive as a Poet, Artist, Etc.
“Sometimes it seems as though poets, in particular, move in an endangered artistic world. Think Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton. And, last month, Rachel Wetzsteon, an accomplished poet who took her own life at age 42.” Jacket Copy last…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The books blogs always like to talk about the future, but this week was like some sort of official book blog crystal ball week, what with this new decade they tell me we’re in now and everything. We’ve already linked…
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A Funny Book About Genocide
“I’d been thinking about writing a book on genocide for some time, but the project really kicked off about a year-and-a-half ago, around the time my wife told me she was pregnant with our second child. Naturally, I thought about…
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Things To Look Forward To In 2010
“The Notebook is the collected entries from 87-year-old Saramago’s blog, O Caderno de Saramago. The book, ‘which has already appeared in Portuguese and Spanish, lashes out against George W. Bush, Tony Blair, the Pope, Israel and Wall Street,’ according to…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Good morning my fellow Rumpusians, as Christmas steadily approaches and the panic to procure becomes almost reptilian, I can honestly say I’ve never handled so many one hundred dollar bills. Are there that many people out there with so much…
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Paul Bowles, Travel and the Non-Christian World
“With few exceptions, landscape alone is of insufficient interest to warrant the effort it takes to see it. Even the works of man, unless they are being used in his daily living, have a way of losing their meaning, and…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
With the year winding down, the book blogs have been ablaze with your typical speculations about the best of this and that. But perhaps there are less obvious threads out there if we only knew where to look. . .…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Greetings my fellow aesthetes, epicurians, book junkies and all around fine people! I’m back in the Sunday guest side-car for today and next week while our legendary Seth Fischer prepares to graduate!
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A Uniquely Literary Holiday Party (In San Francisco)
The winter is cold and dark and your fingers turn blue. Money is scarce. Mornings are the worst of all. Some of us get lonely. We reach for the bottle or the remote control. We long for free camaraderie in…