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Unferth on Bat Segundo
Deb Olin Unferth was recently interviewed on the Bat Segundo Show, a podcast of long-form interviews with writers. In her interview Unferth tells us, “in many ways we’re all sort…
Mena Reynolds: The Last Book I Loved, Denial: A Memoir of Terror
Jessica Stern is one of the world’s foremost experts in terrorism—the 9/11 kind of terrorism. As an unarmed woman, she went into some of the world’s scariest countries, met some…
His Forked Voice Licked My Mortal Ears Clean
In The Flight Cage, Rebecca Dunham adopts and manipulates the personas of historical, usually literary, women to explore the various confinements and resistances that they—and by extension, all women—endure.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I have to admit these bitter Borders songs are pretty great. 1,000 Polish book covers (a selection). 50 Watts has kindly rounded up a month’s worth of exceptional posts on…
National Poetry Month, Day 15: “Persona Ficta” by Jena Osman
Jena Osman’s The Network was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for November, 2010. You can read Brian Spears’s essay on why he chose the book here and the Rumpus…
National Donate Life Month
In honor of April being National Donate Life Month, here are some facts about organ donation:
Deus Ex East Coast
Live on the East Coast? Don’t miss our Books section editor Andrew Altschul’s East Coast tour for his book, Deus Ex Machina. Looks like the good times will include many…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
After all the cool stuff hackers have done with the Kinect for Xbox, I’m excited to see what they’ll come up with when it moves to Windows computers. The internet’s…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #70: A Motorcycle With No One On It
Z is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Beautiful. Going nowhere.
Straight Talk
Poet Alex Dimitrov loves his straight boyfriend. (via @RandallMannPoet, who, it just so happens, is today’s featured poet for our National Poetry Month Project.)