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Theme of Farewell and After-Poems by Milo De Angelis
Barbara Berman reviews Milo De Angelis’s Theme of Farewell and After-Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Johnny Alfi
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Johnny Alfi. Here’s an excerpt: She once gave me her number outside Abbot’s Habit Coffeehouse. She once proposed that she and Nora get matching tattoos of peaches on their ass cheeks. Instead, she…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in whimsy: water sliding through Bristol. Guys, we absolutely killed the moas. Now let’s all go inside the 1964 New York World’s Fair! Perhaps you need some long-form journalism about the world’s greatest juggler in your life? Drunken…
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Michael Lobel on John Sloan; Huguette Martel on her Work
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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Pink Books and Blue Books
Across the pond, the Let Books Be Books campaign is circulating a petition calling on publishers of children’s books to stop labeling books according to gender and to “allow children to choose freely what kinds of stories and activity books interest…
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FUNNY WOMEN #113: Tender Buttons Pleasure Emporium
“Rub her coke.” –Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, 1914.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About the American South
The latest issue of Guernica is out, and it’s a doozy. The special issue—the first of 4 such issues funded by a Kickstarter campaign—takes on the American South. Features include novelist Kiese Laymon in conversation with his mother on language and love…
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All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Grjasnowa
Kevin O’Kelly reviews ALL RUSSIANS LOVE BIRCH TREES by Olga Grjasnowa today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So let’s talk about this big bang news. Tales of politics (and bears!) coming to blows. News story: old Europeans were not good at depicting animals they hadn’t seen. The forgotten ghost stations of a divided Berlin. And now some…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jacob Tomsky
Writer and former hotel employee Jacob Tomsky sits down to chat about his hospitality memoir Heads in Beds, the impetus for opening up about the service industry, and his literary nonprofit.
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OG Dad #23: Bad Moments in Parenting
If you grow up in a tense house, you don’t just get used to tension, you become tension. A tension conductor. Nervousness is like any other household pollutant…
