April 2014
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Freud: The Penultimate Biography by D. Harlan Wilson
James Reich reviews FREUD: THE PENULTIMATE BIOGRAPHY by D. Harlan Wilson today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Personal Becomes Public
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s magnum-opus, My Struggle, is an unflinching and exhaustive chronicle of a modern life. Interviews with the Norwegian writer are equally as vulnerable and exacting: It is too late to shield himself. For all the success of My Struggle, Knausgaard speaks of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Behold the world’s oldest message in a bottle. The golden age of hippie sellouts. Science has some asteroid nightmare fodder for you. How about some midweek Soviet ruin porn? “Wait wasn’t this supposed to be a literature site?” Sentences from the…
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Make/Work Episode 10: John Colpitts
In Episode 10 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with drummer/composer John Colpitts, aka Kid Millions.
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LA Festival of Books Offsite Event: Nerdy, Wordy, & Dirty
Tonight! The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, and Hot Dish reading series combine forces to bring you a rad event!
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Feel Validated, Artists
The biggest myth we are fed as artists is that we need to sustain ourselves solely on our art. This is ridiculous. Every artist has at some point in time had some other job. Some of them kept these jobs…
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Twelve Years, One Book Later
Another testament to the tribulations of novel-making: over at the New Yorker, Akhil Sharma discusses the particular technical problems he faced while writing Family Life as well as how, exactly, he went about solving them. The book took twelve and a…
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Book Deserts Threaten Vulnerable Readers
Writing at BookRiot, Josh Corman draws attention to yet another potential crisis facing low-income neighborhoods: book deserts. Anti-government and knowledge-fearing Congressman Paul Ryan has proposed funding cuts to the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency that provides critical money…
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How To Travel Alone
Some days I come out wrinkled like a jacket / exhumed from a suitcase. Some days / I’m as constant as the last soggy corn flake / at the bottom of a bowl of milk, / that piece that keeps…
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Nick Lantz
For our first episode of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with poet and playwright Nick Lantz to talk about his latest collection, How To Dance as the Roof Caves In, found poems, self-help manuals, and…
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Writing “the very stuff of life”
Today in unusual writing jobs: an inside look at what it’s like to be an obituary news writer for the New York Times. Each day, it is our job to come to know such strangers intimately, inhaling their lives through…
