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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.
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Notable NYC: 10/31–11/6
Saturday 10/31: Sandra Simonds and Meld Nichols join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Monday 11/2: Angela Lockhart-Aronoff, Jaime Shearn Coan, Chelsea Lemon Fetzer, Morgan Parker, and Jon Sands join the Writing Aloud Reading Series. BookCourt, 7 p.m.,…
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A Small Story About the Sky by Alberto Rios
Jeff Lennon reviews Alberto Rios’s A Small Story About the Sky today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Remembering Molly
Ten years later I still wondered about those aviator glasses and whether The Breakfast Club could restore us.
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Reading on Reading on Reading
For Ploughshares, Clare Beams talks about the strange effect of reading a story in which someone reads a story: Paintings of people looking at paintings, like this one, can make me fall into a dizzy sort of hole. Gazing at…
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The Downfall of the Pun
Punning surprises us by flouting the law of nature which pretends that two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Where does the pun come from? And why does it prompt ubiquitous eye-rolls? Dive into the history…
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Striving for Simplicity
Academics aren’t exactly known for their simple prose. At the Atlantic, Victoria Clayton details the movement to make scholarly writing more clear and accessible: Bosley, who has a doctorate in rhetoric and writing, says that academic prose is often so…
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Sinatra Wore It Better
The Guardian has a series of incredible photos of the Chairman from the new book Sinatra: The Photographs, and they confirm what we already knew: the crooner outclasses us all, one perfectly tailored suit at a time. Check out the…
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This Week in Short Fiction
It’s that time of year when everyone is dying for a good scary story, a tale with thrills and chills, one to make you check over your shoulder around the campfire. But what makes a story truly scary? Is it…
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She Had Many Selves
The next year, my grandmother dressed as an inflatable sheriff. She was a devout Catholic who’d worked at Planned Parenthood. She had many selves. At Catapult, Tim Manley writes and illustrates a history of his grandmother’s Halloween costumes.
