December 2014
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New Readers Report Theme: “Remorse”
We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for our next Readers Report! This time, we want you to tackle the theme “Remorse.” Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT yahoo.com. We’ll…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Kristina Marie Darling’s poetry collection, Fortress, is “image-rich” and wonderfully allusive. The setting is the famously decadent palace of Versailles. Like the film Marie Antoinette, “Darling’s book is simultaneously excess and desolation,” writes Sandra Marchetti. White spaces are used strategically…
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John Green Sends Books to Ferguson
Scott Bonner, the director of the Ferguson Municipal Public Library, answered questions on Reddit over the weekend and discussed the needs of the community in light of the ongoing protests. The Ferguson library has continued to function, even as schools…
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Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter
Tara Merrigan reviews Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter today in Rumpus Books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m back! For real! NASA’s abandoned launch pads. (Seriously internet, am I that predictable?) This NY Times article on the significance of passwords is pretty great! Seriously everyone, bullying is just incomprehensibly awful. Here’s your Norwegian grass-based art for the…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #59: Not a Folk Singer
There is a lot to learn from Vashti Bunyan, therefore, about how to live a self-designed life, and how to be unapologetic and decisive about the habit of songwriting.