November 2012
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Police Log Comics: The Book!
Rumpus contributor Owen Cook’s Police Log Comics will be coming out soon in book form. The book is a 34 page black and white, edition of 200 with a hand colored cover. Here’s the trailer which features strobe and is not recommended for those with a…
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Capote Fans’ Prayers Answered
Buried treasure has been unearthed at the New York Public Library: six unpublished pages of Truman Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers. They’re from a chapter called “Yachts and Things,” and you can read them in this month’s Vanity Fair. If…
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Dwarf by Tiffanie DiDonato
While born with diastrophic displaysia, a rare form of dwarfism causing short stature, joint deformities, and very short extremities, Tiffanie does not allow the world to define her.
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Method Actors
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” Easy enough for E. B. White to say, but how do you schedule out time in a day? Brain Pickings has…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s just send all of the people to mars. In the meantime, let’s talk about life in Antarctic lakes. 16th Century German explosives. Your nose gets hot when you lie. Today my favorite things are Pelican book covers.
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The ‘We’ of Single Motherhood
Taking this leap of faith alone has drawn a network around me in numbers stronger than if I had conceived a child inside a traditional relationship and family. In the big and small moments of this new kind of passage,…
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New Readers Report Theme: “Storm Stories” (Submissions Due Today)
We’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 “Storm Stories.” While that’s a nod to Sandy, any and all storm stories…
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Status Updates are the New Democratic Process
Who knew legalese could go viral? BuzzFeed explains how, technically, that privacy statement everyone has been posting on Facebook accomplishes nothing legally. Herein lies the rub: you should still post it!
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Thanksgiving in Brooklyn
Feeling nostalgic for full bellies and tryptophan induced comas? Jon Cotner walked around Brooklyn and asked residents for their Thanksgiving food traditions. Turns out it’s not just turkey and cranberry sauce.
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Uncharted Territory
There were nationally-coordinated actions at Walmart stores across the country for Black Friday. Over the last several months, there have been walk-outs at Walmart stores in nine states. Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world, and has been criticized…
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Birdlings and Other Young Poets
Via Longreads, a Michigan Quarterly Review essay by Miah Arnold about teaching creative writing to children hospitalized with (often terminal) cancer. Reading it feels like having your heart thrown off a skyscraper, but it’s so good you have to read…
