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Tom Robbins Drives Down an Old Road
NPR has an interview with author Tom Robbins about his new memoir, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life. He gives some insight into his experience as a novelist-turned-memoirist, saying that writing a memoir is like driving…
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Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
When my father died my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: “Oh man, I’m an orphan.” There’s also this relief: It’s done; it’s finished; it’s over. Because I had felt…
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Just Another Sap in the Night
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death, Colson Whitehead’s new memoir about his participation in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, will be out on May 6th. NPR just published an excerpt: After a few phone calls, the administration released…
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Rumpus Contributor Kima Jones on NPR’s Code Switch
When NPR’s Code Switch went searching for “young poets who were livening up the literary landscape” in honor of National Poetry Month, they found themselves in the world of Rumpus contributor Kima Jones. Code Switch and Ms. Jones set out…
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A Box Full of Old Emails
We know many people collect old letters, especially from loved ones who have passed, but what about old emails? What will happen to our electronic footprint after we are gone? And should we care? NPR’s All Things Considered investigates the…
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Animals as Rorschach Tests
We’re psyched to see that our Comics Symposium interview with Connie Sun was linked by NPR’s Robert Krulwich. Krulwich highlighted Sun’s comics about animals and our relationships with them. Check it out: “The Right Way to Hug a Lion.”
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Nabokov vs. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
“When Nabokov started translating [his English-language memoir] into Russian, he recalled a lot of things that he did not remember when he was writing it in English, and so in essence it became a somewhat different book,” Pavlenko says. At…
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Yumi Sakugawa on NPR Blog
We’re absolutely thrilled to see NPR’s Code Switch blog highlight Rumpus cartoonist Yumi Sakugawa and her new book, I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You. Here’s a small glimpse of her conversation with Code Switch’s Kat Chow, this bit on a…
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People of Color in Medieval Art
A few days ago, Morning Coffee dispenser Dan Weiss mentioned Medieval POC, a blog examining the appearance of people of color in European art history. The blog’s creator, Malisha Dewalt, recently participated in a roundtable chat with other art historians and…
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“The Only Tamil Rapper”
NPR titled this interview “M.I.A. On Being Heard,” and they were not joking around. In it, the Sri Lankan-British rapper relates all the things she’s had to do over the years to convince people to pay attention to a woman…
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Dear Sugar Meets Half-Sister
“She’s not a hiker but … that hiking boot on the cover caught her eye. And she was just halfway into chapter one when she said she sat bolt upright in bed and realized that we had the same father.”…
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¡Qué Vivan Los Exóticos!
Mexico’s lucha libre—professional wrestling conducted by bombastic masked luchadores—is fairly well known in the United States. But many of us haven’t heard of los exóticos, gay luchadores who often wear makeup and make a show of flirting with their opponents. NPR has…