2011
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Albums of Our Lives: Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Show Your Bones
1. Love Letter I experienced my first categorically bisexual three-way—a completely unexpected yet unforgettable coming-of-age story—when I was 15.
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The Rumpus Interview with Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Samhita Mukhopadhyay discusses finding her voice through blogging, writing like an orphan, and love as social change
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Once More, a Vocabulary Primer
The horrifying crisis unfolding at Penn State reminds us, yet again, of the carelessness of language used when we write about sexual violence.
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Steve Jobs the “Tweaker”
“I’ll know it when I see it. That was Jobs’s credo, and until he saw it his perfectionism kept him on edge.” Malcolm Gladwell examines (what be believes to be) “the real genius of Steve Jobs.”
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The Spirit of Violent Lamentation
My Twitter feed blew up last night when the news came down that Joe Paterno had been fired by Penn State University for his role in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case.
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Homegrown Textbooks
“The problem with mass-produced textbooks…was that they can cost $65 each and aren’t aligned with Minnesota’s math tests so the district would be paying for whole chapters that are never used.” A few Minnesota high school districts look to save…
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Laurie Weeks Interview
This week Bomblog interviewed Laurie Weeks about Zipper Mouth (our October Monthly Rumpus selection). Topics included gardening, writing, and portals. “If I do cut-ups or mix things together with, say, journal writings or other stuff that’s just hideous on its…
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From Helplessness to Competence
Lily Tuck’s engaging new novel I Married You For Happiness explores a 40-year-plus marriage from the vantage of one night.
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The Rumpus Interview with John Wesley Harding
Well as a singer-songwriter you kind of have a right to hijack bands. I’ve never really had my own band for too long.
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“Russian Doll” Cinema
“But every so often a filmmaker sneaks a piece of mini-perfection into their movie that’s so self-contained, such an unnecessary tangent, it can stand alone as its own perfect short.” Nerve archives “five great short films” that can be found…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Presidential candidates, Dungeons and Dragons edition. Lions, and tigers, and half-billion-year-old multi-legged predators, oh my! Turtles eating things.