The Rumpus Red Carpet Report: The One Story Literary Debutante Ball
Four hundred writers and readers celebrated one of the country’s favorite journals. Where were you?
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...moreThe panic that pervades these stories arises because in our real, human world there is too much cause for fear and worry. Who, exactly, is responsible for the deteriorating environment? What, precisely, causes terrorism? Enter the bugbears and scapegoats.
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Rumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade.

September 13, 2009
10:37am – Walking by Book Stands
Tao Lin T-shirts were dangling on hangers at the Melville House booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The T-shirts said “Tao Lin: 1983- ????” Across from Melville House was the Ugly Duckling booth.
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