April 2011
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The End of the World
Since the Rapture is coming upon us at a rapid clip, there are just two-and-a-half things you need to do (and nice try, but it’s too late to repent and/or convert):
1) Buy THE RUDE PUNDIT’S ALMANACK.
2.5) Good. Now buy another.
2) See The Rude Pundit himself, in performance, this coming Monday at NYC’s Half King Bar!
— Posted by John
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WatchThe Rude Pundit made his national TV debut last night on MSNBC’s The Ed Show, talkin’ post-Birtherism politics.
Posted by Fern
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Revolutionaries in the Arab World
92y:
Alex Nunns, editor of Tweets from Tahrir, was on the Brian Lehrer show this morning. Listen to the mp3.
Hear more from Alex with Rula Jebreal, Issandr El Amrani, Adbelkader Benali and Abdellah Taia tonight at 92Y for Revolutionaries in the Arab World, part of the Pen World Voices festival.
We particularly like Alex’s answer to Brian Lehrer’s question about the non-violent...
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Today on WNYC's Brian Lehrer show: Tweeting and... →
Listen to Alex Nunns and Rula Jebreal discuss new and old media in the recent political developments in the Middle East. (They will both be on tonight’s panel at the Pen World Voices festival.)
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"Yes, it is no on this, yes --" Gordon Lish...
iambikaudio:
“This magazine is wide open — to everyone and to everything. It only remains for you to teach us who’s who and what’s what.”
Now I want Lish to reject me. Here’s the rest.
Posted by Joana
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@zeb: Tweets from Tahrir →
zeb:
I heard an interview about the new book Tweets from Tahrir. I don’t usually buy blogs-to-books type projects, but I was won over by this effort.
Seems like a trend… Thanks, @zeb!
Posted by Fern
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Oil's Well that Ends Not So Well
On the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, L.A. Times names IN DEEP WATER one of year’s best on gulf oil spill: http://t.co/JRFXX5x via @ArchiveDigger
Posted by John
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Llama Font →
“Say it in Llama.” Need I say more?
Posted by Joana
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"Tweets from Tahrir" in NYC
See you at PEN American Center’s TWEETS FROM TAHRIR event at the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday, April 27th. Tickets are $20 ($15 if you’re a PEN member), but it’s for the best of causes: freedom of expression. Featuring: Rula Jebreal (Miral), Issandr El Amrani (The Arabist), Adbelkader Benali, Alex Nunns (editor of Tweets from Tahrir), and Abdellah Taia.
“It really is the case that as you get older you read less fiction. And then by...”
– Geoff Dyer at the Paris Review. I felt a bit unimaginative quoting the same section as Alex Balk, who made me aware of the interview, but, honestly, it’s my favorite quote.
Posted by Graydon
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Kerning Me Softly →
I like this.
(via Swiss-Miss)
Posted by Joana
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Re-imagining Palestine in the New Configuration of...
OR Books and Guernica magazine are proud to present Raja Shehadeh and Norman Finkelstein in conversation, this Tuesday at NYC’s Alwan Center for the Arts, FREE at 8pm.
Re-imagining Palestine in the new configuration of the Arab world is topical to our perception of the future of the region and the world at large. Unprecedented changes have swept across the political, social and cultural...
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Q: How many Cormac McCarthies does it take to... →
A: Two or perhaps three, approaching now, from beyond the tree in the long low light of morning. From some black place: a reckoning neither required nor bidden, a reckoning no judge could have ordered, but a reckoning nonetheless. One of the men carries a single glove, ready to grip the hot, bright bulb and twist it dead. The other two follow, smoking, and whisper about what is to come: the...
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Six Writers Tell All About Covers and Blurbs →
This made me giggle a lot, in the most nerdy publisher of ways.
“Marketing” of course is very important in the same abstract way that astrology is very important. By the way, I know a person who has it written into her contracts that her book can’t be released while Mercury is in retrograde. Which at first seems brilliant, but then it makes me think that maybe that means all the lead-up...
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“The quest for Najib—the details of his life and the route of his great...”
– Raja Shehadeh, from an excerpt of A Rift in Time in Guernica. Read the rest here.
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Publishers Weekly: Communities The Key, Publishers... →
Featuring our very own Colin Robinson, Goodreads’ Patrick Brown and Mitch Joel from Twist Image.
Posted by Fern
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The Indie Booksellers Choice Awards longlist has... →
mesjak:
From the longlist, some of my favorite nominees:
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall (W.W. Norton)
Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja (Small Beer Press)
Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr (Akashic)
(Sponsored by Shelf Awareness & Melville House)
Including our own The Autobiography of Jenny X. Congrats to all our fellow nominees!
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Atheist Christopher Hitchens Writes Love Letter to... →
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BOB JONES UNIVERSITY TO GIVE LIBERAL BLOGGER "THE...
Lee Papa, the wildly popular, unapologetically liberal blogger known as “The Rude Pundit” will receive an honorary degree from Bob Jones University at their graduation ceremony for the School of Religion on May 27th, 2011 in Greenville, SC.
Growing up in the swamps of Louisiana’s Cajun country, Lee Papa was a “poor white...
