November 2015
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Readers Report: Fall Back
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Fall Back.”
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What Do I Know of Sorrow?
What have I to complain about? Nothing much. Sylvia Plath would have been eighty-three years old last week; to celebrate her birthday, Brain Pickings shares an eighteen-year-old Plath’s thoughts on her life of privilege, what constitutes “free will,” and both the…
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A World Made of Words
At ZYZZYVA, Christian Kiefer talks with novelist Scott Hutchins and playwright Octavio Solis about learning and developing as writers, the difference between writing plays and writing novels, and writing as a craft: It’s an art. There’s alchemy in the process by which…
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/2–11/8
Monday 11/2: Liana Aghajanian won the Write A House contest and is leaving LA for her new home in Detroit! Join her at her going away party, featuring food, drink, readings, possibly dancing, a discussion with Write A House board…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Brandon Hicks personifies a crucial part of all stories in “The End: A Biography.” Then, in the Saturday Essay, Lisa Ellison recalls the comforting presence of Molly Ringwald on her television screen alongside difficult memories of her mother’s drug…
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Who Hunts the Witch Hunters?
Rachel Kincaid writes for Autostraddle on the twisted power dynamics inherent in witch trials, both in history and fiction, in the past and in the present day: But what rings most dangerously prophetic about Salem is the ideology that suggests…
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City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Brian Ted Jones reviews City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg today in Rumpus Books.
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Are You Sure They Are All Horrid?
Over at Lit Hub, Bridget Reid praises the proto-feminist Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe and company, in all of their glory as horrid, formulaic, and dreadfully misunderstood creatures, with a special laundry list of gothic tropes as they can be…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
For the record, we here at MC are PRO ancient shipwreck graveyards. On South African architecture of fear. Here is some Utopian fashion for you. All hail the Jewel caterpillar! We could all use an early 20th Century electric bath…
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The Rumpus Interview with Zarina Zabrisky
Zarina Zabrisky talks about her new book, Explosion, the art of the short story, Russia and Ukraine, and being “a Jewish pessimist in the spirit of Shalom Aleichem.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Sarah Einstein
Mot was living my own fear… I wanted to learn from him how I might survive, if I too ended up without a home, without the resources to live what I thought of as a minimally decent life.
