2011
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Mother Issues
“Perhaps the most feminist thing we can do is simply forgive our mothers whatever slights.” Reviewing The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood and Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power,…
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THE LONELY VOICE #14: Isaac Babel, Every Grief Soaked Word
I mourn him like a lost brother. I’ve no right to say this. It’s ridiculous. Yet some voices, we convince ourselves, can’t be lived without.
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Choose Books
Choose Books: A Gift Guide for People Who Care About Stories is Anna Clark’s incredibly detailed book gifting guide for the holiday season. In addition to the hundreds of specialized book recommendations, there are sections on magazine subscriptions, literary organization…
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Michael Alan’s Realism
“I’m more of a realistic artist than anything else because life always changes on us. I’m trying to embrace that rather than trying to reject it. It’s something that’s definite and we have to accept it. Change is definite, but…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #3: Revolution in the Air
Revolution begins with devotion to a moral vision and a belief that egregious wrongs must be made right. In this way all revolutions are a revolution within. These days, there is both revolution in the air and a fear that not…
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Readers Report: Leftovers
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Leftovers.”
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It’s Pigsty I
Nomura plays with language in radical and diverse ways, employing subtleties of rhythm, semantics, image, gender, punctuation, and repetition, often all within the same short stanza.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is what the world has come to: urban emoticons. Fish used to walk all over the place. Dornith Doherty takes pictures of seed life. Way to go Dornith. The Symbolism Survey. “When Animals Run Attack Ads.”
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Poetry Mystery
The discovery of a 500 year-old poem pasted in the back of a a 1561 edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer sparked an investigation into the poem and its author, Elizabeth Darce. “On the one hand it’s not brain surgery.…