2011
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George Lippard, Online
In his essay “There Is a Head Rolling Over the Platform: The Strange Case of George Lippard’s The Quaker City” Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes writes that Lippard’s “best novels churn up something far weirder and super-black India inky than even…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #37: Snake Bite
In the Book of Job, a capricious, punishing God speaks from behind the obscuring protection of a whirlwind.
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VIDA’s “Best American Count”
VIDA has released its “Best American Count,” which examines the gender imbalance found within “the Best American anthologies in poetry, fiction, and essays.” Update: Women who have been included in Best American collections discuss VIDA’s count.
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“A Universal Orphan Fantasy”
“Even the happiest child imagines at some point that she actually belongs with the fairies.” Michelle Huneven interviews Leslie Jamison, author of The Gin Closet.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Jay Reatard, Wild Man with a Vision
When Jay Reatard was alive, he got called anything from “possessed” to “total dick.” Looking back on his recorded legacy with the ease awarded by hindsight, I see that he was consumed by his own aesthetic: a wild man with…
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My Stupid Dollar, My Beautiful Soul
When reading Space, in Chains, I would command my sister, my mother, my friends: “listen to this poem.” I recited Kasischke’s poetry out loud at the dinner table; I scanned her words as subways hurtled beneath boroughs; I listened to…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #43: Alana Voth in Conversation with Her Facebook Friend, Terry Gearlds
Terry Gearlds and I have never met. We’re friends on Facebook. We share some stuff in common like True Blood and horror movies. Also, anytime either of us see a picture of Bradley Cooper with no shirt on our nipples…