2011
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“Double,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Jeff Hoffman
Double I drink a Belgian and explain to my father, over the phone, why several of his thirty-nine
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“Try Not to Cry on Your Pasta”
“Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason.” “Adventures in Depression” by Allie is a comic following a character’s experience with unfounded…
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The Memory of a Coin
Alliterative poems dually titled with different years provide each of the book’s two parts with bones to an otherwise fleshless narrative. Placed upon the page like fossils for an extinct skeleton, the poems succeed in bearing their own significant weight.
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Books and Beards
The Silver Lake Public Library in Los Angeles will host a facial hair competition on December 20th. The event, which is free to enter, will feature Jack Passion, author of The Facial Hair Handbook and reigning champion of the World…
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Scott Raab Interview
Scott Raab conversed with The Awl about his new memoir, The Whore of Akron: One Man’s Search for the Soul of LeBron James. Raab provides insight on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Who wants to be an astronaut?!? On a more somber note, Hans Friedrich Grohs’s woodcuts of Death. A tale of Salman Rushdie, Twitter, and Facebook.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren’s first book, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, tells her true story of living in a harem in Brunei. She is most recently the author of Pretty, a novel about a young lady named Bebe who goes…
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Jaclyn Friedman Interview
Yes Means Yes has a conversation with Jaclyn Friedman about What You Really Really Want: A Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide To Sex And Safety. Topics include the book’s writing exercises, flexisexuality, fetishization and communication, and parenting. “…You can’t become free…
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Following The Rules
“The problem with pulling this kind of thing the wrong way in a speculative-fiction story is that science fiction, fantasy, and horror don’t necessarily share mainstream fiction’s baseline expectations for how reality works, and it’s far too easy to leave…
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Dalí in Wonderland
In a 1969 “collaboration of epic proportion,” Maecenas Press-Random House published an edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Salvador Dalí. While the price of the actual book is $12,900, you can peruse the illustrations here for free.
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Today, in Book Review, Christopher Lura reviews Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything, David Bellos’s new treatise on the pleasure of translation. Read the review.