2011

Mini-Interviews

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #37: Rachel Ann Brickner in Conversation with Varun Bhandari

Varun and I met shortly before we graduated from college, and then I moved across the country. We remained in good touch until he visited me. We fought and then…

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Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, Stories I Stole

Wendell Steavenson’s memoir of her time as a freelance foreign correspondent in Tblisi, Georgia, begins in her former Time Magazine office, where she and her friend Nina spin escape fantasies…

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Poor Little Poughkeepsie

The affection Joshua Harmon has for Poughkeepsie is the kind one might have for an alcoholic uncle or an abusive neighbor who occasionally tells good stories. The only love here…

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Features & Reviews

OMG and LOL are inducted into the OED

“It’s wonderful to experience the ongoing corruption and evolution of the English language.”

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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

“I am only six but I think I can do this job.” Wasn’t a laughter epidemic the Joker’s evil plot in Tim Burton’s Batman movie? (via Gerry Canavan.) The NY…

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Poems

National Poetry Month Day 6: “Certain Slant” by T. R. Hummer

Certain Slant Concertina music breaks its foam on the haberdashery window, a murder ballad so old even the monkey knows the words

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The Rumpus Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't know if objective information beats back myth.

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Features & Reviews

Beating WB

Rumpus readers are still discussing their favorite ways to beat writer’s block. Why not join the conversation?

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Media

Features & Reviews

“David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library”

“One surprise was the number of popular self-help books in the collection, and the care and attention with which he read and reread them. I mean stuff of the best-sellingest,…

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #37: Rachel Ann Brickner in Conversation with Varun Bhandari

Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, Stories I Stole

Poor Little Poughkeepsie

OMG and LOL are inducted into the OED

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

National Poetry Month Day 6: “Certain Slant” by T. R. Hummer

The Rumpus Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Beating WB

Erin Rose’s Tech Links

The Bins

FUNNY WOMEN #50: Defense Mechanisms (Some New Game Apps for Your Feelings)

“David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library”

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