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2010
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New Comic!
Artist Susie Cagle debuts in our Comics section today with “CONCERNS: I’m Here from the Government.”
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #53: “A Closed-Circuit System”
Is there any group of people on the planet more eagle-eyed than eighth graders? I think not
Ward’s Woodcuts
“Ward’s roots were not in comics, though his work is part of the same large family tree, belonging somewhere among the less worm-ridden branches of printmaking and illustration. ” Art…
Make It, Make It, Don’t Fake It: Trash Humpers
In a lush suburban neighborhood in the South, dogs bark, birds tweet, and the sun shines on basketball hoops hung over powered garage doors. By night, soccer fields and parking…
Talking About The NBA
The National Book Award Finalists have been announced, and include “13 women — the largest number ever.”
Tilting at Squiggles
Illustrations by Albert Dubout for L’Ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche (1938):
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey dudes, let’s talk about cracks in the universe. The next weekly Rumpus meeting will be spent on underwater scooters, right Isaac? Halloween is so close, so it is time…
A MODERN READER #6: In the Stacks
I spent $90, and now I have 39 books stacked on my table. That’s $2.31 each!
“The Hilarious and The Heartrending”
“Sedaris knew he wanted to be a writer from the age of 25, when he read a collection of Bobbie Ann Mason stories; he attempted to fulfil his ambition by…