The Last Book I Loved: Cataclysm Baby
The Last Book I Loved is an ongoing series with The Rumpus to highlight emerging Tumblr writers (and the books they love). Want to have your essay considered? Submit it here.
Cataclysm Baby, a short story collection by Matt Bell, explores fatherhood under the guise of a book of baby names. The innocent abecedary form belies the book’s dark contents. I don’t think it would be inappropriate to place the collection in the horror genre, if only to align it with my own desires and my love affair with horror movies. But the book certainly contains enough blood, guts, and magic to earn a place there.
Wow.
Never Rancid is a compendium of the most “newsworthy” items of the day, as determined by the internet.
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Totally cool photo of the Curiosity landing and where all of the other components landed. We made quite a mess! #geek #Curiosity (Taken with Instagram at Haus Via Apartment (Cory & Mark))
martian sunrise
This dress and petticoat are made of very fine Indian muslin, a loosely woven cotton fabric. In line with the general simplification of clothing, the popularity of silks and brocades declined during the 1770s in favour of cotton textiles. The finest muslin was imported from India, but from the late 1780s British manufacturer tried to copy the Indian imports, at first without much success. The cotton traders Peter Drinkwater and John Hilton wrote in 1786:
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