2011
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne
I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live above. We had dinner a few months ago, where I…
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Alex Tzelnic: The Last Book I Loved, Burmese Days
Confession time: I’ve never read 1984. Sure, it was assigned in high school, as were Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, and Great Expectations. I didn’t read those either (though, for some strange reason, I finished Animal Dreams in an inspired…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss is on tour with his band. We will try to make due, but make no promises. For fans of middle school math and/or Egyptian mysteries: is this the world’s first protractor? Animal logos! From Purple…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sloane Crosley
For a writer, Sloane Crosley’s a pretty fancy young lady. For starters, she’s been in the New York Times—for her fashion sense; she’s gone head to head with comedic Scottish bulldog Craig Ferguson
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Updating High School English
I’m married to a high school English teacher. I love hearing about his students’ reactions to books that I also read as a teen: Animal Farm, Brave New World, Macbeth, and more. But are some of these books, the classics,…
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Transgender Students at Women’s Colleges
“‘Women’s colleges are, in my opinion, attempting to figure out how to support trans men, but there are more barriers to trans women who would like to attend their institutions,’ [D. Chase James] Catalano, a trans male who has worked…
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Longreads ♥ Sugar
Congratulations to our own oh-so-lovely Sugar, who’s column “How You Get Unstuck” was today’s Longreads pick thanks to Longreader Logan Sachon.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Which states have the best writers? Hayden’s Ferry Review has an interesting roundup of “unusual calls for submissions.” “John L. Caughey, a cultural anthropologist and American Studies professor, believed that although Mark David Chapman and John Hinkley had turned to…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Come click through and see what Rumpus Books has been up to this week.
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The Story Behind “The Road Not Taken”
I’ve often said that Frost’s well-known poem is one of the most misinterpreted in American poetry (among casual readers, that is), and this story in the Guardian seems to back me up. It tells the story of Edward Thomas and…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “God is an American” by Terrance Hayes
When I first read “God is an American,” I was wide-eyed and breathless and thought it might be a love story. To me, Terrance Hayes was the best kind of romantic–the kind of man who uses a German turn of…