2011
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Damn Grrl
“You can feel the collective shudder among language purists: ‘innit’, ‘grrl’ and ‘thang’ have been admitted into the Collins Scrabble Dictionary. Admission into any dictionary is the first step on the road to legitimation, thus raising the question of whether…
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Missing Chicago
Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities didn’t include Chi-Town and the good folks at Chicagoist have taken notice.
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Remembering DFW’s KCS
“On a hot Ohio morning, Wallace described for the Kenyon grads the day-in-day-out difficulties of grown-up American life.” Over at The Millions “Kenyon Grads Remember David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech.”
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Please Welcome Tony Millionaire
We are so pleased to announce that Tony Millionaire has joined Rumpus Comics. To celebrate, we’ve not only posted Tony’s debut, but we’ve also posted a bonus Maakies strip. Go check ’em out, and be sure to give Tony a…
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Tony Millionaire’s Rumpus Debut!
The Rumpus is proud to welcome renowned cartoonist Tony Millionaire to the comics line up. His strip Maakies will now appear every Wednesday in the comics section. …more
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Rumpus Comics Spotlight Series
SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Casey Scieszka & Steven Weinberg Rumpus Comics continues to introduce you to new and exciting artists.
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Ederynn Khushrenada: The Last Book I Loved, The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan
There are only two disappointments in Gerald Schwab’s The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. One is the zong-I’m-blind! DayGlo op art cover. I mean, really. For god’s sake this is a $117 book, and Herschel Grynszpan…
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I Am Haunted By Lilacs
In Linda Pastan’s thirteenth book of poetry, Traveling Light, we enter into themes of aging, dying, time’s ticking clock, and the natural world.
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“Eugene ‘I Promise Not to Get into the Drug Scene’ Oregon”
Rumpus readers are having a good time adding cities to Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities map. Why not join in the fun?
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in exciting concepts: Dolphin Talking! Roller Coaster Science! Zombie Ants! Early Aviation! Soviet Kids Textbooks!
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Tony Millionaire Rumpus Debut
The Rumpus is proud to welcome renowned cartoonist Tony Millionaire to the comics line up. His strip Maakies will now appear every Wednesday in the comics section. In celebration we’ve got two additional pieces by Tony for your reading pleasure…