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Skip the Forced Family Fun and Volunteer This Thanksgiving

Seriously, this Thanksgiving, would you rather 1) endure awkward conversations with those cousins with whom you have nothing in common, and yet another interrogation about your life choices from your…

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Thrall by Natasha Trethewey

Joey Connelly reviews Thrall by Natasha Trethewey.

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“1233. I was happy until I was actually happy at which point I wasn’t happy.”

The Millions muses on translation via Paul Legault’s The Emily Dickinson Reader and the magazine Telephone Journal. Both platforms have created English-to-English translations of classic pieces, through reinventions of childhood games…

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MAAKIES:
Antartica

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Morning Coffee

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

We’ll be taking Thursday and Friday off this week, so we better link to 86 years of Thanksgiving Day Parade floats now. Midcentury architecture magazine covers (are great) Beware of…

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I Am Sorry, Women

I haven’t been getting along very well with women lately. I don’t like admitting this. To admit this is, I have been told, is to admit that I don’t like…

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Getting to Know Thurston Moore, Poet

“It was Moore’s, and Moore’s alone, unique dichotomy of rock star demagogue and unbridled fan of poetry that made his class worth the audit. Scansion, simile, synecdoche―such elements of praxis…

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Thanks, The Atlantic

In discussing Kurt Vonnegut’s theory that you’re only allowed to be in love three times in a life, The Atlantic cites and praises our recent interview with Nanette Vonnegut, the late author’s…

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The Rumpus Interview with Craig Nova

Powerhouse novelist Craig Nova discusses his newest work, the terrors of the universe, the solaces of fiction, and his influences, from Albert Camus to Alice Munro.

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New T. S. Eliot Papers To Be Revealed

If you enjoyed reading about T. S. Eliot’s first wife, Vivienne, in Rumpus interviewee Kate Zambreno’s book Heroines, you might be interested to know that Eliot’s second wife, Valerie, recently…

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New Readers Report Theme: “Storm Stories”

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…

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