2011
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Catholics in Literature
“Yet despite such a rich Catholic literary heritage with many contemporary admirers — one can’t help thinking of how passionately the MFA/Creative Writing/Workshop establishment venerates the stories of Flannery O’Connor — there has not been a new generation of Catholic…
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Kerouac’s First Novel Now Published
“The 158-page The Sea is My Brother, a tale of two young men serving on a voyage from Boston to Greenland, has been known about for some time, but is being described by Penguin, its publisher, as ‘a unique insight…
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Thanksgiving Weekend Rumpus Roundup
In cased you missed these over the holiday weekend: A Rumpus original essay on Freddie Mercury. The latest Albums of Our Lives: Joni Mitchell’s Blue. Sugar compiles 94 ways of Saying Thank You from Rumpus readers for her #90th column.
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TIME Difference
Americans are oftentimes painted as ethnocentric and unaware of global issues, and this interesting photo, comparing cover images of Time Magazine for U.S. residents versus the rest of the world, isn’t helping.
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This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Rumpus!
We are proud to announce the arrival of two THREE new Rumpus mugs, and two money-saving deals!
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #112
THANKSGIVING, 2011 ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Thanksgiving, 2011.
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Inside Outside
Iceage New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?) Perhaps because the band consists of four clean-cut Danish teenagers, Iceage’s brash, discordant punk has made it the darlings of both the Pitchfork and the Maximumrocknroll sets.
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Notable San Francisco: 11/28-12/4
This week in San Francisco….! Monday 11/28: The New Yorker’s described Swiss writer Peter Stamm as “Albert Camus…in an age of email.” Reading tonight from his latest, Seven Years, at an event hosted by the Center for the Art of…
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Days of Future Passed
In the new book, In the Time of the Blue Ball, pseudonymous author, Manuela Draguer brings us three stories about Bobby Potemkine, a P.I. in an absurd world.
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Notable New York, This Week 11/28-12/04
This week in New York, a launch party for Emily Books; n + 1 readings at The Kitchen; How I Learned the Rules of Attraction: Stories About Online Dating; Happy Hour poetry reading with Jericho Brown and Mark Doty; a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Orlean
I think the idea of what people will do in order to service something they’re obsessed with or passionate about is very much a part of both books.