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2011
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A Struggle at the Roots of the Mind
I don’t know if I’m the only youngish reader to have this chip on my shoulder, but I always sort of assume that poems by older people get mellower. Let…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure you’re all sick and tired of reading about the Crab Nebula. This week in European pedestrian bridges. Lady tears be making dudes testosterone levels go down and such.…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her collection Lucky Fish.
Ishmael Reed On The “Jim Crow Media”
This last year Ishmael Reed published a book of satirical essays targeting the current American media: Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers. Despite…
The Best Single Issue Of Any Literary Magazine
Is? That’s what Luna Park asks. And comes up with Dirty Realism!
Adapting Blood Meridian?
I just found out that James Franco is set to direct the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian which is the most violent novel I’ve ever read. So I…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #61: The Sacred Thread
Limits are not punishments, but rather lucid and respectful expressions of our needs and desires and capabilities.
Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival Shorts came through town for a one-night only showing, which I caught earlier this week at the grand old Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. The…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Lots of tweets and texts and facebook updates may actually encourage more in-depth analysis. Tablets schmablets. Americans really just want more smartphones and TVs. Is RSS dying? Yeah, right. Police…
Wendy Breuer: The Last Book I Loved, Everything Flows
Russian journalist and novelist, Vasily Grossman, is the most humanist of writers. I found my way to him through his brilliant epic of WWII, Life and Fate. I didn’t want…