2011
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Homelessness and Occupiers
“What occupiers from all walks of life are discovering, at least every time they contemplate taking a leak, is that to be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born “illegals,” facing prohibitions…
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“Perfectly Flawed”
“So instead we’re talking flawed main characters, neither villains nor anti-heroes, whom the author has deliberately, even perversely contrived as hard to like.” Lionel Shriver, director of We Need to Talk About Kevin, discusses the unique value and craft of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #107
MY NEW SUIT ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my new suit.
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New Readers Report Theme: Humiliation
Submissions Due TodayWe’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for another “Rumpus Readers Report.” This time we want you to tackle the theme “Humiliation.” Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT…
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“This Could Be Anything”
Rumpus Morning Coffee editor and musician extraordinaire Dan Weiss is in a band called The Yellow Dress and this is their new music video! Directed by Tiffany Parker Shot and Edited by Errol Sabinano Pick up the new album “Humblebees”…
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Benjamin Nadler: The Last Book I Loved, The Street
I return to The Street again and again. I first read the novel when I working as a bookseller out on West 4th St. in New York. A man I sold books with lent me his copy, saying that it…
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The Rumpus Interview With Will Potter
In 2007, I was put on Homeland Security’s Watch List. True, my brother had just been arrested. He had been a member of the underground Animal Liberation Front, freeing wild mustangs, mink, and lab animals for nigh on twenty years.…
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What Began As a Love Letter…
Warmed and Bound, an anthology of neo-noir fiction, offers 38 dark and beautiful stories from Matt Bell, Blake Butler, and others.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/24-10/30
This week in New York, Poets & Writers at Housing Works Bookstore Café; Rita Dove and others at Poets House; Writing Dublin, Writing New York; How I Learned to Say I’m Sorry; Helen Oyeyemi reads from Mr. Fox; Steve Almond…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s take a moment to celebrate the expired LEGO patent. Airplane graveyards are pretty great, agreed? Death masks are a thing Everyone loves mid-century pharmaceutical ads. David Foster Wallace sends a fax.
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Restroom Reading
Do you read in the bathroom? Of course you do, who doesn’t? For those of you who take the newspaper, magazines, or a paperback, there should be nothing hazardous about your habits. But… “Microbes don’t fare too well on absorbent…