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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Please watch out for asteroids today guys. These people are in jail for a way cooler reason than you. I’m super rich, I don’t have to wind all these watches…
Letters, Characters, and Ten-Degree Shifts: The Rumpus Interview With Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman’s fiction is elusive stuff. His is a body of work that’s equally at home rooting narratives in history or playing textual games with the reader. Even his more…
David Peak: The Last Book (of Poetry) I Loved, Horror Vacui
This is the one I return to, sometimes several times a year. The term “Horror Vacui” has two definitions, both of which serve as a useful framework while skirting the…
A MODERN READER #5: Fetishizing the Pastoral
Is it possible to pinpoint when a trend begins? When a seminal book, or movie, or article penetrates the mainstream? Really it never is a single specimen, but rather a…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #28: Alex Behr in Conversation with “The Fugitive”
Dave “The Fugitive” Jansen, thirty, is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with Oregon’s Team Quest Fight Club. Our talks took place prior to his World Extreme Cage Fighting…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #43
The problem with the Guardian Angels is that they travel in packs, Doug. You can see ‘em coming from a mile away, so everyone stops doing their illegal shit before…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hello tiny Singapore. Everyone loves Siberian photography. The world’s oldest beer. Vintage Swiss airline industry design. It is a good day to think about monkey brains.