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Mary Pacifico Curtis: The Last Book I Loved, Grief

Andrew Holleran’s Grief is a beautifully written book that fulfills what one liner note promises, perhaps delivering the fictional version of what Joan Didion before him did in her non-fiction Year of…

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Video

Peeing as Art

Roger Ebert, in a blog post that set a million messageboards aflame, once stated that “video games can never be as art.” Clearly he wasn’t aware of this new urinal-based…

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NIKKO on the Radio

Delfin Vigil’s wonderful non-fiction story NIKKO: Concrete Commando, beautifully illustrated by Rumpus comics editor Paul Madonna, was first published here on the Rumpus. Now Vigil has retold his tale for…

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Queen of Spades

Illustrations by Gennady Yepifanov (Г. Епифанова) for Pushkin’s Queen of Spades, 1966:

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Features & Reviews

The Worst-Case Scenario

“GQ: What do you worry about? What would be the worst-case scenario for your career? “JF: Global pandemics. But I’m not a compulsive hand washer or anything.” Chuck Klosterman talks…

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Other

“This is what strong families do in crisis: They adapt and roles change.”

Read this powerful essay by Tracy Clark-Flory about her mother’s battle with third stage lung cancer and her father’s attempt to maintain some level of normalcy during the Christmas holidays.

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Features & Reviews

Help Dean Young

Poet Dean Young needs your help. Afflicted with a degenerative heart condition, Young “needs to get a heart transplant soon, or go to drastic measures like a mechanical external pump.”…

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The Bins

THE BINS: Charley Another fantastic Rumpus comic from Lucas Adams.

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Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #34: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian, his BFF

When last we heard from Brian he had gotten work as a Xerox copier mechanic in his hometown of Rochester, New York. Robert Tumas’s latest conversation with his itinerant best…

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THE BINS:
Charley

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

I am very cold so lets all just watch this solar storm. What’s that? You don’t think the universe could be any more awesome? oh hey ICE VOLCANO. Here are…

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The Rumpus Original Combo with Matthew Lippman

“Now, 23 years later, I’m a broke poet with two books and a small fan base that digs my shit. Not too shabby for a half-ass, lazy, somewhat smart guy…

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