2010

A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #25: The Angelic Name

In 1994, David Foster Wallace published an essay about the difficult-to-pin-down pleasure of watching great athletes during their most intense moments of competition. The essay, “How Tracy Austin Broke My…

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Features & Reviews

“I meet 35 (exact number) people a year.”

“I went to the Tin House party last night in the city, and it was one of the best publishing-related parties I have been to in a long time.” A…

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The Duke of Discomfort

David Means’s fictional worlds are ominous, pre-apocalyptic, the hiss after a match is struck but before it ignites.

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Features & Reviews

Franzen Fiction

“If Patty hadn’t been an atheist, she might have thanked the good Lord for school athletic programs, because they basically saved her life and gave her a chance to realize…

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #38: Romantic Love Is Not a Competitive Sport

Some of those women your boyfriend used to fuck have nicer asses than you.

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Other

“The reader is always doing you a favor.”

The Daily Rumpus is an email Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes and sends out anywhere from two to five times a week. Most of them are not posted online, but…

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Other

Lists Mocking Lists

“7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism” McSweeney’s re-titles some literary classics in the name of boosting web traffic.

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Other

The Daily Who What?

Stephen Elliott’s Daily Rumpus emails are getting more regular, but also stranger. You can subscribe here.

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Features & Reviews

Anxious Expo

“As the book industry gathered for its annual convention in New York this week, it had plenty to be nervous about: the threat of piracy, the decline of brick-and-mortar stores…

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Features & Reviews

A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #25: The Angelic Name

“I meet 35 (exact number) people a year.”

The Duke of Discomfort

Franzen Fiction

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #38: Romantic Love Is Not a Competitive Sport

“The reader is always doing you a favor.”

Lists Mocking Lists

The Daily Who What?

Anxious Expo

Keillor Talk

PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL:
Comic No. 39

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