2013
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Wonder Women by Debora L. Spar
Briana Fasone reviews Debora L. Spar’s WONDER WOMEN today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Coping with Anxiety
Editor of The Atlantic, Scott Stossel, suffers from anxiety, and he’s hardly alone. In an essay called “Surviving Anxiety,” Stossel chronicles his lifetime battle with the nation’s most common mental illness, describing himself from the age of two on as…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Hilton Als
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Hilton Als about his new collection White Girls, an intriguing amalgam of fiction, essay, and memoir.
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Looking at Spent: A Memoir
Rumpus contributor Antonia Crane‘s forthcoming memoir, Spent, is getting some great reviews ahead of its early 2014 release. Check out what the Library Journal has to say: “VERDICT This is not an antiprostitution diatribe, but is instead one woman’s account of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #213
MONSTER ENERGY DRINK ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Monster Energy Drink.
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Rap Lyrics Invade LA Street Signs
Multimedia art projects are popping up everywhere and can really define a city. In Los Angeles, Jay Shells is posting rap lyrics about the city as street signs in the areas referenced in the lyrics—just as he did earlier in…
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The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100
Word nerds, it’s time for a celebration: the crossword puzzle turned 100 years old over the weekend. See if you can solve the first one ever published—it was shaped like a diamond and called a “word-cross puzzle,” among other slightly…
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Medieval Mongolia’s Undefeated Wrestling Princess
Genghis Khan had a great-granddaughter named Khutulun (the cousin of Kublai Khan), and it sounds like she was a total badass: As she grew older, she joined the public competitions and acquired great fame as the wrestler whom no man…
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Reagan’s “Welfare Queen” Was Real and Terrifying
Ronald Reagan’s anecdotal speech about a “welfare queen” who bilked taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars has largely been discredited as racist demagoguery, but it turns out that particular woman did exist—and welfare fraud was the least of…
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A Prayer Journal by Flannery O’Connor
Oliver Bendorf reviews A PRAYER JOURNAL by Flannery O’Connor today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Give the Last-Minute Gift of Rumpus
Ran out of gift ideas? Forgot to put someone on your list? It’s not too late to give the gift of Rumpus! Our online store has plenty of awesome subscriptions you can give instantly, with the click of a mouse. Choose from…
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The Rumpus Interview with Beth Lisick
Beth Lisick, writer and the co-founder of Porchlight, the monthly storytelling series and a San Francisco institution, sits down to chat about collecting her shames, working with City Lights on her newest book, the act of telling stories in public,…