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2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The future of camouflage lies in Octopuses. This kind of thing is my favorite kind of thing: Captain Scott’s lost photographs. Maybe we are all living inside a future civilization’s…
Five Questions
Nikolai Fraiture, bass player for The Strokes, interviews Jay Griffiths about her book Wild:
Images of Occupy Wall Street Worldwide
The Atlantic has collected photographs of Occupy Wall Street protests across the world. The 50 photos—taken over the last several days—depict the growing nature of the movement.
Arundhati Roy’s Political Writing
What has Arundhati Roy been up to since her 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things? This piece answers that, exploring Roy’s current writings on India’s Maoist rebels.…
The Rumpus Review of Drive
There are two ways of looking at Drive, the recent Ryan Gosling noir. You can consider what happens on the screen—the plot, dialogue, and action, or you can consider what doesn’t…
Letter Play
“The challenge is simple: Create an image from a word, using only the letters contained in the word itself—and using only the shapes of the letters, without adding extra parts.”…
Colson Whitehead Interview
“It started with a dream. I had houseguests and I heard them in the living room making breakfast one morning. I went back to sleep and dreamt that I wanted…
On Men Undressed
Lidia Yuknavtich (a Rumpus Book Club author) conversed with Gina Frangello (also a Rumpus contributor) about Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience, an anthology premised on women…
FUNNY WOMEN #64: A Call for Artists
How often have you read application guidelines such as: “Artists working in their home countries, women, emerging writers, and people of color are encouraged to apply”? Have you felt flattered by the special…
Damascus Giveaway! (Is Now Over)
In honor of today’s Rumpus Interview with Joshua Mohr and the Rumpus Review of Mohr’s latest novel, Damascus, we are announcing a giveaway! The first ten people to email their…