November 2012 - The Rumpus

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Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts

Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton has teamed up with Maria Popova (of Brain Pickings) to illustrate selected excerpts from Susan Sontag’s diaries. The artwork is available on Etsy as an 11×14 print on heavy cotton…

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thank goodness for the authors

“You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead—to which I say: Pull up a chair, friend.…

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Throwback Art

Nostalgic for the 90’s art scene? Specifically 1993? Mark your calendars for The New Museum’s exhibit “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set Thrash and No Star,” a title borrowed from the Sonic…

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Written Word as Basic Need

Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and countless other authors, intellectuals and humanitarian efforts, such as Libraries Without Borders, agree: books should be a part…

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Great Novels with Bad Endings

How many love affairs have you had with novels that ended abruptly, poorly, without cause or the “proper” resolution? You finish the last word, your arms hang limp, the novel…

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Luna Love

In their Field Guide to Adrianna Luna, Fleshbot gave a shout-out to our interview with Adrianna, which delves into her road to porn stardom. Thanks, Fleshbot, we love you back!

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“The Lamp With Wings” by M. A. Vizsolyi

Love puts a lot of pressure on people to do things with each other. There are a lot of conditions to saying “I love you.” You have to act love…

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THE WEEK IN GREED #19: The Pressure of the Real

I was in a Starbuck’s in central Connecticut trying to think about the election

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

So yes, NASA probably DID find organic materials, but not on the planet we thought. Hurray for pinball based art! Planned cities seen from space. Lots and lots of old…

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The Rumpus Interview with Russ Kick

Russ Kick, editor of The Graphic Canon and certified information hoarder, gives the lowdown on combining classic literature with comics, cruising for dates with Lord Byron, and masturbating fetuses.

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Tweet to Death

Check out Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt’s Brooklyn Twitter mystery. You have until the end of today to help decide if the death in question was a “#suicide, #homicide, or an…

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Gilgamesh Has It Goin’ On

This past spring, Russ Kick edited the first volume of The Graphic Canon, which intertwines works of literature ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to A Picture of Dorian Gray…

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