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If my life is ever made into a movie, I want it aired on SyFy, & I want some sort of combination animal involved, like a sharktopus, only cooler. And…
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The Rumpus and Flavorpill Present: “Ladies Night”
Celebrating the release of The Rumpus Women Volume I! CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS! December 13th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Featuring authors Kathleen Alcott, Julie Greicius,…
Uncovered Updike
Guernica features John Updike in a previously unpublished interview. He discusses his admiration of Nabokov, his writing and reading habits, and why he wrote a book from the point of view…
The Rumpus Red Carpet Report: Live from 5 Under 35
On Monday, November 15, National Book Award week kicked off with the annual “5 Under 35” celebration, at which five young fiction writers were feted at the PowerHouse Arena in…
The Rumpus Review of Stone
If the only thing you’ve seen of the new Robert De Niro/Edward Norton film, Stone, is the trailer, you may feel that your membership in the Robert De Niro Disappointment…
Intoxication with the Glory: Book Club Round-Up
The Guardian‘s Nicholas Lezard examines Tao Lin‘s Richard Yates. “It is all achingly hip,” Lezard writes, “in its studied avoidance of the depths that literary fiction is meant to plumb.…
Second ‘Donkey Blogger’ Released
Yesterday we told you about the release of Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #57: That Ecstatic Parade
You mustn’t live with people who wish to annihilate you.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
At Google, “do no evil” means “pay us if you want us to do evil” when it comes to helping the government spy on you. For the mobile gamers: Pocket…
Steal This Blog Post
“In a recent New York Magazine article about Frey’s new fiction factory, Frey is quoted saying that documentary is ‘a thesis on truth that hasn’t been proven yet’ and that…
A Long Talk with Burns
“I was hooked at a really early age. I was looking at a lot of different things. The style I started emulating more was the classic comics style.” Cartoonist Charles…