2011
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Happy Sunday, everyone. Should Wuthering Heights have been called My Teacher Ruined This? The Guardian writes up alternate book titles. The first ever uncensored Dorian Gray will soon be released. Kyle Minor puts together a collection of last sentences from…
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National Poetry Month, Day 31: “Single Lane Bridge” by Johnathon Williams
Here at The Rumpus, we think it’s a little silly that National Poetry Month only has 30 days, so we extend the celebration for just a little bit longer. Welcome to April 31! Single Lane Bridge The dark cannot claim…
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Modern Medicine is Freaking Amazing
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club has been discussing Dean Young’s Fall Higher this month, and given that Young had a heart transplant on the 15th, I’d basically assumed we were going to have to postpone. Nope. We’ll be chatting with…
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“Pastor Witherspoon Goes to War”
I’ve been an ardent follower of the NY Times Disunion blog almost since it started. If you’re unfamiliar with it, the Times is reliving the Civil War in a sense, offering a day by day discussion of the war through…
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Science Saturday
An Appeals Court has lifted the injunction against the National Institute of Health’s revised policy on funding stem cell research. That’s the science part of the link. The language part of the link? Part of the decision was based on…
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Saturday Morning Links
So if you look at the calendar, you’d think that today is the last day of National Poetry Month, but we don’t follow calendars all that closely here at The Rumpus, so expect an extra day at least. I wonder…
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National Poetry Month, Day 30: “Out of Office Reply: Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead” by Joseph Harrington
Joseph Harrington’s Things Come On was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for March. You can read the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s chat with him here and Camille Dungy’s essay on why she chose the book here Out of Office…
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A Ritual for Being Born Twice
Melissa Petro lost her job last summer after publishing an article on The Rumpus about her former life as a sex worker.
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“Luminous Bruises in the Fog”: Book Club Roundup
Earthquakes breeding nuclear meltdowns, tornadoes razing towns in the South, immense tropical storms: the news never fails to feed us weather calamities. That’s why Jim Shepard‘s You Think That’s Bad will surely spark a sky-gazing reader’s attention: “He’s our leading…