December 2011
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The Rumpus Interview with Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses The Mirror in the Well, its carnal language, eros, and the pros and cons of social media.
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Smoke In Your Eyes
SMOKE IN YOUR EYES: Heartthrobs A beautiful Rumpus Comic from MariNaomi about partying with Duran Duran.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #113
JIFFY BRAND PEANUT BUTTER ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Jiffy brand peanut butter.
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New Readers Report Theme: Leftovers
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “Leftovers.” Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT…
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Notable San Francisco 12/5-12/11
This week in San Francisco- Monday 12/5: Chicano poet and critic Luis J. Rodruiguez reads at CCSF’s Mission campus, reflecting on his widely read Always Running and its sequel, It Calls You Back. Free, 7pm. Quiet Lightning has been giving…
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The Surreal Nature of Real Life
Edited and illustrated by Arthur Jones, Post-It Note Diaries collects 20 mundane but evocative tales by storytellers ranging from Chuck Klosterman to Andrew Bird.
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Notable New York, This Week 12/05-12/11
This week in New York, Oscar Hijuelos and William Kennedy at the 92nd Street Y; The Paris Review Winter Issue Party; Freerange Fiction reading at Pianos; Authors Martha Southgate and Elissa Schappell at KGB Bar; Poet Alice Fulton reads at…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s December, time to look at the year in photos. HYDRO POWER! Welcome to captivity, Ozark Hellbender. Anti-Soviet baby spies.
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I Was Living My Father’s Life
Artist Jason Novak‘s tribute to Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Enjoy: