June 2012
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Today I Will Let You Have Your Saturday To Yourself
Friends, comrades, Rumpusers (Rumpusans? Rumpaloompas? Sorry), I am taking a mental health day today. However! I did write something about Sheila Heti’s new book for Slate this week that you are welcome to read. I suggest taking a powder on…
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“The Search for Decolonial Love”
In an extensive two–part Boston Review interview, Paula M.L. Moya talks with Junot Díaz about race and gender in his writing, emotional decolonization, and Monstro, his novel in progress. “There’s that old saying: the devil’s greatest trick is that he convinced…
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The Rumpus Interview with Andrea Portes
Andrea Portes, author and screenwriter of Hick, discusses adaptation, the disconnect between audience and critic reception to the film, and stories that are in the blood.
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Andrew Orvedahl Show
Andrew Orvedahl, comedian, Rumpus friend, and creator of The Narrators, is performing on Friday and Saturday at Punch Line San Francisco. You can purchase tickets here.
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Back to the Foto
Irina Wernings’ photography collections, Back to the Future 1 & 2, are hilarious and heartwarming time-machinery: Just look at this! And that!
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Zapruder on San Francisco
Living in San Francisco “can be like being in a relationship with someone who is moody in an exciting and ultimately harmless way”, according to Matthew Zapruder, an SF poet, essayist, and Rumpus contributor. In an interview for Words Without…
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THE WEEK IN GREED #9: Triumph of the Ill
Ten years ago, in the midst of a lengthy depression, I found a lump in my lower forty and decided, with the help of my depression, that I had cancer.
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An Open Letter
On her blog today, respected critic Ruth Franklin wrote an open letter to the editors of Bookforum. She writes: I have considered opting out of writing for magazines at which women are not represented among the top editors, such as Bookforum. But…
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Brain Pickings
Brain Pickings made a New Year’s resolution to read more books and write better. They’ve been posting all kinds of interesting writerly and readerly advice. For half a year they’ve been doing a heck of a job summing up Vonnegut…
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New Digs for the Classics
Publishers, including big guns like Penguin and HarperCollins, have begun to target teen readers by reinventing the cover design of many classic pieces of literature. Like Penguin’s new edition of Romeo and Juliet which features a “Romeo in stubble and…
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Word Games
Two things to spice up your probably already awesome Friday morning at work/playtime/scheming your next perfect crime: 1) Shy Gypsy’s Funny Farm: This is a word association game to the max! It’ll knock your socks off and then tell you they…
