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Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman

William Seward Burroughs is not a talkative man. Once at a dinner he gazed down into a pair of stereo microphones trained to pick up his every munch and said, "I don't like talk and I don't like…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5693 words)
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Stevie Wonder: 'I Love Getting Into as Much Weird Shit as Possible'

'I remember one time we were in Puerto Rico, and it was a sunshiney day," said Ira Tucker. "And Stevie was saying it was gonna rain. He said he could smell the moisture in the air, and we were all…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5771 words)
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How the Trailer Park Could Save Us All

The smooth streets of Pismo Dunes Senior Park on the Central Coast of California. (PHOTO: ARNALDO ABBA) Residents call life at Pismo Dunes Senior Park “Pismodise.” Park manager Louise…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5615 words)

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Ben Greenman’s new novel, The Slippage, features a visual artist who makes ironic, self-referential graphs and pie charts. “Charts about the way people look at charts,” he…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3093 words)
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The Food-Truck Business Stinks

Stefan Nafziger seemed oddly downbeat for a guy watching a dozen or so hungry people line up to buy his falafels. Three years ago, when it seemed as if food trucks might take over Manhattan, he…
PUBLISHED: May 7, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (683 words)

Cary Grant

If we need a reason to celebrate Cary Grant, it is that Charade, one his last films and his only film with Audrey Hepburn, turns 50 this year. Grant was hesitant in accepting the role—he was…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2040 words)
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Bad girls: A history of unladylike behaviour

Dyhouse found herself "more and more interested in rebel girls, bad girls, the ones who went off the rails. They're not exactly feminist, but they're representing a discontent with what's in front of…
PUBLISHED: March 16, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2763 words)

Shaun Randol interviews Salman Rushdie

PERHAPS TO HIS DISMAY, the prolific novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie may be best known for the fatwa Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued against him for his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2727 words)
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Smokler

Kevin Smokler gave himself a tough assignment when he set out to write Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School, and not just because he had to…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3326 words)
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