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If you skipped the Rumpus this weekend to watch the Super Bowl (who wouldn’t after reading J. Ryan Stradal’s guide for people who don’t know about football?), here’s what you missed.
A gorgeous Yumi Sakugawa comic called “Of Light.”
Another comic, this one about Groundhog Day, by Cassie J.
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Grand dame of literature and author of more than 50 books, Margaret Atwood talks to The Rumpus about gender, privacy, the law of improved weaponry, and the brave new world of online publishing.
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“I’m exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.” Novelist, theorist, historian and blog-girl, Kate Zambreno gives up a meaty, definitive interview.
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Junot Díaz is the most interesting kind of…hmm…I was going to use the word “genius,” but maybe that’s not quite right for a man who spends seventeen years honing one brilliant book.
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Thrice-acclaimed novelist, Jonathan Evison, talks community-building, literary intimacy, the importance of editors, and the fragile construction of hope.
...moreIn case you snoozed Sunday away, here’s what went down: New, kick-ass Rumpus Sunday editor Gina Frangello brought in two great pieces, Emily Rapp’s “Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship” and Stacy Bierlein’s “Ten Reasons Not to Sleep with a Poet.” Not to be missed.
...moreLidia Yuknavtich (a Rumpus Book Club author) conversed with Gina Frangello (also a Rumpus contributor) about Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience, an anthology premised on women writing sex from the perspective of male characters.
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Cris Mazza is an indie lit icon. Her debut novel, How to Leave a Country, was a PEN Nelson Algren Award winner, and since then she has gone on to publish more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction at some of the most interesting independent presses in the country,
Gina Frangello is capable of magic. She’s the kind of person you meet and you know seconds after meeting them, they’re capable of things you’d never be able to accomplish.
...more“Interestingly, I’ve found The Rumpus a lot more compelling lately than the New York Times. I oscillate between really worrying about old, venerable print pubs and feeling like I don’t want to be part of attacking them and making them seem less relevant–I don’t genuinely want them to be utterly obsolete–and then just being really disgusted at the snark and laziness like what you illustrate above re: the attack on Saunders .
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