November 2011
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Analysis of UCB Chancellor’s Email Response
“Overnight the discussion of Birgeneau’s letter has focused on its willingness to defend beating in the name of non-violence and its fetishization of non-violence as such. In agreement with those points, I’m also interested in Birgeneau’s falsification of the history…
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“The Translators,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Joshua Edwards
THE TRANSLATORS After reading about Caesar And Pompey, we searched Until we found a nearly perfect Antique plate. Speaking
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The November Monthly Rumpus
It’s time to gear up for The November Monthly Rumpus! Join us November 14th, 7pm, at the The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring authors Kim Addonizio, Rachel Resnick, Dean Rader, Jillian Lauren, and Chicken John! Plus music…
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Lucky Peach Launch Party in San Francisco
“Issue two of LUCKY PEACH (the new food/writing quarterly from McSweeney’s, David Chang of Momofuku, and writer Peter Meehan) hits newsstands on November 15,” and there’s a launch party at Heart in San Francisco! For $12, you get a copy…
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Smoke In Your Eyes
SMOKE IN YOUR EYES: Whole A heartbreaking and beautiful Rumpus Comic from MariNaomi.
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Man, Wall, Sea
Working with his father, Joshua Edwards has also created an intriguingly masculine book. The collection presents father and son’s perspectives on an American landscape molded and scarred by men.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Whatever you do today, take it to eleven. Does the “smallest electric car in the world” come with airbags? “War Is a Verb” (collages by Allan Kausch). More than you probably ever needed to know about the McRib sandwich.
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Albums of Our Lives: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Show Your Bones
1. Love Letter I experienced my first categorically bisexual three-way—a completely unexpected yet unforgettable coming-of-age story—when I was 15.
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The Rumpus Interview with Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Samhita Mukhopadhyay discusses finding her voice through blogging, writing like an orphan, and love as social change
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Once More, a Vocabulary Primer
The horrifying crisis unfolding at Penn State reminds us, yet again, of the carelessness of language used when we write about sexual violence.