2011
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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 we didn’t talk for a long while until now. This…
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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 under the world map tacked above their desks. Nina has…
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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 is tough, the product of circumstance rather than choice.
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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 Times celebrates the life of Thomas Eisner and you probably…
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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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Beating WB
Rumpus readers are still discussing their favorite ways to beat writer’s block. Why not join the conversation?
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The vote on whether Twitter and other SF tech companies will get their desired tax break to stay in town is today. Google & Facebook are taking the French government to court over its privacy laws. The Anonymous hacker group…
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FUNNY WOMEN #50: Defense Mechanisms (Some New Game Apps for Your Feelings)
“As the computing power of cell phones increases, more and more sophisticated mobile apps are being developed for the mental health field. They’re seen as a way to bridge periodic therapy sessions — a sort of 24-7 mobile therapist that…
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“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, Oprah-level cheesiness and la-la reputation was to be found in…
