2013
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Write-a-House
An organization in Detroit announced a new writer’s residency, Write-a-House, where “the writer is simply given the house, forever.”
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Women Writing Weird Words
Somewhere between its Kmart and hysterical phases, literary realism got shaken up, when a group of young women writers began crafting a spectral brand of fantastical, strange fiction….Permeating the stories is a sense of omnipresent strangeness made visible. The Los Angeles…
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SPECTRE by Laurence A. Rickels
James Reich reviews Laurence A. Rickels’ SPECTRE today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Of Love and Loss
For Guernica, Boyer Rickel offers us raw reflections on love and disease after losing his partner in “Morgan: A Lyric.” You don’t realize how much nothing is until you have nothing, says a woman in Oklahoma whose house burned down. Love…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s the end of the year, which means things like this. 2013 in Science (hooray for the olinguito!) The Big Picture has begun their always fantastic year-in-review. Here are the films the Library of Congress are adding this year (the…
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Make/Work Episode 2: Julien Nitzberg
Make/Work is a new Rumpus podcast hosted by Scott Pinkmountain. In Episode 2, Scott talks with writer/director/documentarian Julien Nitzberg. Nitzberg is most well-known for the documentary, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, and his musical, The Beastly Bombing, which won Musical of the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Dr. Mimi Hoang
Dr. Mimi Hoang, psychologist, author, and co-founder of the Los Angeles Bi Task Force and amBi, discusses the lack of a bisexual voice in the national conversation and her long-term work as a mental health advocate and researcher of bi…
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Grammar Master David Foster Wallace
The interview was a byproduct of an article Wallace started in the late nineties on the grammar wars. Most writers think of grammar as uninteresting, the machine code of literature, but Wallace loved it for many reasons—because his mother did;…
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Which Book Are You?
If you’re eager to know more about you and your future, you certainly need to check this high school literature zodiac Rumpus contributor Timothy Leo Taranto created for The Paris Review. No birthdays or constellation involved, all you need to know is…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Randall Mann
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Randall Mann about his new book Straight Razor, Fleet Week, Hart Crane, and Naked Poetry.
