2011
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Rumpus on Feministing!
Feministing published an article on the backlash to the Mac McClelland piece on PTSD, commending her bravery, defending the art of the personal essay and citing yesterday’s Roxane Gay piece for its wise advice on how our diverse personal narratives…
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The Rumpus Interview with Josh Fernandez
I remember reading a journal, thinking, “If I read the word ‘tendril’ one more time, I’m going to jump out of this window.” Luckily, I was outside.
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Exiled Writers
Writers exiled from their country of origin have a unique relationship to language, freedom and oppression. The context of a homeland functions simultaneously a point of inspiration for the writer and guidance for readers, and so writing about home is…
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“If You Ever Write About Me…”
“Nothing links up, nothing makes sense, there’s only feelings and actions as you’re lost to something bigger than yourself. There is no cause. In that way, and perhaps in that way only, it’s like love.” Conner Habib writes a beautiful…
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Your Future in Books
The Millions came out with the “Great Second-Half of 2011 Book Preview,” which includes 66 titles and tons of accompanying words describing them (most books are forthcoming, some came out this month). First on the list is last month’s Rumpus…
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Would You Do That Again?
In short, the book offers the expert work of an expert: it is as if Bly is writing messages against the sky using not a plane but his own flawless wings and capacious vivid breath.
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Remembering Nabokov
Four days ago was the anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov’s death and this Paris Review blog remembers the wordsmith/butterfly catcher as the compelling professor and famous author that he became. There’s even a vague Lady Gaga comparison/reference. And did you know…
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Brazilian Poets These Days
Contemporary Brazilian poetry occupies one of those interesting post-revolution free spaces where anything can happen. After the poetic products of the military dictatorship and the national identity-searching, and the Tropicalia movement, contemporary Brazilian poetry had an opportunity to be apolitical…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am about to go to through the Southwest, which is part of why I am in love with 1950s atomic bomb test photos. Robo-worm is coming to save the day! Second homes for leisure living(hurray). Y’all ready for a…
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The Revolution Is Incomplete
It is tempting to read the photos of last week’s renewed conflict in Tahrir Square as yet another isolated round of violence between the Egyptian youth and the Central Security Forces. But this subverts the root of the rage in…
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All Over Coffee #541 Collaboration with Andrew Sean Greer
Click image to enlarge: Written by Andrew Sean Greer. For more information on collaborative All Over Coffee strips, go to allovercoffee.com. … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and…