2011
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Are You a Romantic? Friday Book Club Round-Up
Roxane Gay examines Lidia Yuknavitch‘s Chronology of Water, the current Rumpus Book Club selection. Her review is organized into handy sections, and she ends with an affirmative: “I will just say I fucking loved this book and I strongly encourage…
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A Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Update
I’m not going to try to bring you breaking news on this story–the situation is too fluid, and you don’t come to The Rumpus for that sort of story anyway, at least I don’t think you do. Instead I’m going…
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Whole Foods, Empty ‘Hood
“My first thoughts when I saw the solar-powered Whole Foods sign go up in my neighborhood were: My life just got a million times better. The convenience! The consistent quality! The $11 half-pint of curried chicken salad! My second thought?…
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“So I Shot Him”
A “never-before-published short story” by Dashiell Hammett will appear in The Strand.
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Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: The Gospel of Anarchy Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
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Your Worst May Be My Best, or Vice Worse-A
Like the poems it contains, The Takeaway Bin as a whole is a response to something commonplace; one might even say it’s a book of copings with or responses to life.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert day 2: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? Oh hello, giant Russian underwater cave. This week in retro-future: the robot-filled year 2000. Did you guys see the most beautiful truck crash ever?…
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Passport to Trespass
Photographer/rambler Mikael Kennedy shares photos from the seventh volume of his over-a-decade-long project, Passport to Trespass:
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NY Times “Responds” to Backlash
What Rhoades Ha and the New York Times fail to understand is that the backlash is not about readers misinterpreting these quotes as belonging to the reporter, James C. McKinley Jr. It is about everything else.