2011
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #76: The Woman Hanging on the End of the Line
Acceptance asks only that you embrace what’s true.
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The Rumpus on NPR’s Talk of the Nation
Yesterday evening, Poetry Editor Brian Spears was interviewed by Talk of the Nation’s Neal Conan about the issue of male privilege and his article on the Amina Affar scandal. The audio and a transcript are available here. Love you Talk…
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Everything Is Its Own Reward
Paul Madonna‘s new book, Everything Is Its Own Reward, is out now. The book covers 4 years of work and features 6 countries and 13 cities. And there’s a removable poster. Here are some beautiful excerpted pieces.
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33 and Feeling Great
Among myriad literary twitter feeds, the Rumpus shines, listed as one of the “thirty-three twitter feeds to follow,” by Poets and Writers. Thanks P&W!
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The Summer Without Men
Siri Hustvedt’s new novel The Summer Without Men traces the summer of Mia Fredrickson, newly divorced and back home in Minnesota surrounded by women, young and old.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Y’all ready to leave the solar system? No thanks, I think I’ll stay here and explore World’s Fairs of the 1930s. Fact: babies love Picasso. (via Gerry Canavan.) I don’t care what you say, I think this Tokyo nightclub is…
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The Limits of Student Speech
“If a high-schooler uses an off-campus computer to create offensive material that relates to his or her school life — writing nasty messages about school administrators or fellow students, for instance — is his or her speech still protected?” The…
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Lucky Peach Y’all
McSweeney’s and David Chang’s new hunger-inducing venture, Lucky Peach, is out now. Check out the McSweeney’s attention in the Wall Street Journal. The first issue is ramen-themed. Being that there’s some sort of transitive property of common interest among those…
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English Takeover
Tim Parks writes on the tensions between lingua franca and vernacular—readers and writers don’t want to be confined to the limits of their national origin, while wanting to keep the vernacular-specific prose. There’s always translation, but is there an English…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
More Lulzsec, please: they’ve now opened a hack request line so the public can request targets. Hehe. Wanna read Sarah Palin’s emails from her stint as governor? Me neither, but at least now they’re searchable. Wikileaks is auctioning lunch with…