2014
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Our Secret Life in the Movies by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree
Kim Winternheimer reviews Our Secret Life in the Movies by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree today in Rumpus Books.
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The Sentimental Thinker
“If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental,” she writes, “that is only the half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another short week this week, we’ll be back to normal next Monday. 2014 in images from space and things we shouldn’t have stuck up there. It is imperative that we send a person to a cloud city above Venus. Old…
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The Rumpus Interview with Darcey Steinke
Darcey Steinke talks about her new novel, Sister Golden Hair, motherlessness, the Southern cult of femininity, and how becoming a woman has changed since she came of age in a small city in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Lava Lamp of Pain
Pain moved into my body five years ago. It wasn’t the whack of an anvil or the burn of a scraped knee. This pain sat warmly on the surface of my hands, and reached up to my elbows like evil…
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Notable NYC: 12/27–1/2
Saturday 12/27: Frank Garcia and Jon Bershad stage a live reading of The Interview, based on the motion picture censored by Sony Pictures. Treehouse 154, 7 p.m., free. Thursday 1/1: Adam Fitzgerald, Adeena Karasick, Alan Felsenthal, Alan Gilbert, Alex Cuff,…
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Wild
In simplicity there is truth, and being out in wide open spaces often has a way, like high-speed rail, to bring us back to simple things.
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The Last Book I Loved: Pen & Ink
I was so very tired of being judged and dismissed. The more others pressed their expectations upon me, the more I turned to tattooing to protest.
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The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Hernández
Daisy Hernández talks about her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, feminism, bilingual writing, and working in both the fiction and nonfiction genres.
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In Case of Emergency by Courtney Moreno
Thomas Cook reviews In Case of Emergency by Courtney Moreno today in Rumpus Books.
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