November 2011
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The Rumpus Interview with Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd
July 24, 2011. Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd confidently walk up a flight of stairs inside Brooklyn’s Municipal Building City Hall that sweltering Sunday morning.
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The Slow Urgency of Drowning
Stacie Leatherman weaves lush metaphors and imagery that drifts and flakes, and is riddled with earthly abundance, colors, and dust. Her writing is sensory, and her voice and syntax trick you until you lose the difference between leaves and flesh.
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Writers as Pinups
“Now don’t get us wrong — of course we believe that the stuff in their heads is much more important that the shape of their heads (or the shape of their bodies, for that matter) but that doesn’t mean we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How to drive to the end of the world. The moral here is that you don’t need to assume everything is symbolism. Atlas title pages (hurray)! Soviet bus stops are also neat. “Danger is Everywhere” thank you for existing 50…
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American Nietzsche
“A question raised almost at once (and periodically revived) was why Nietzsche was proving so popular here: ‘What is the philosophy of an anti-Christian, antidemocratic madman doing in a culture like ours? Why Nietzsche? Why in America?’ Ratner-Rosenhagen wonders. Nietzsche…
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The Rumpus Interview with Colby Buzzell
Colby Buzzell was a bored 25 year-old, weary of working dead-end, hand-to-mouth jobs when he decided it would be more exciting and pay better to shoot machine guns in Iraq.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: The Eleanor Friedberger Solo Theme Park
Eleanor Friedberger Last Summer (Merge) Last Summer, the first solo release from Eleanor Friedberger, half of the Brooklyn duo The Fiery Furnaces, is, for better or for worse, a summer record.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The government thinks it can track anyone using GPS 24/7 without a warrant… here’s hoping the Supreme Court says differently. Republic Wireless unveils a new, contract-free $19/month cell plan that relies heavily on existing WiFi networks… AWESOME. British computer whizzes begin…