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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #209
A LAMBORGHINI ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a Lamborghini.
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“Write Like A Mother” Onesie Now Available for Pre-Order
Good news! The cutest thing to ever exist is now available for pre-order in our online store: the Write Like A Mother onesie. We know how many fierce writer moms wanted something a little more child-appropriate than the classic WLAM…
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Notable SF: 11/25–12/1
Monday 11/25: Join Green Apple Books and the San Francisco Elk’s Lodge in welcoming Barry Gifford to the historic Elk’s Lodge in celebration of his new book, The Roy Stories. Free, 7 p.m. Bay Area contributors to Flash Fiction Funny,…
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The Rumpus Review of The Counselor
Throughout the film’s first act, Scott and screenwriter Cormac McCarthy present a culture of testosterone, then spend later scenes toying with this impression…
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“Because” Has New Meaning, Because Grammar
Like it or not, the meanings and uses of words are constantly shifting, because language. At the Atlantic, Megan Garber writes about how the word “because,” normally a subordinating conjunction, is increasingly being used as a preposition, with examples and possible…
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Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker
Shawn Andrew Mitchell reviews Nicholson Baker’s THE TRAVELING SPRINKLER today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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“The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself”
Why did my mother kill herself and I didn’t that year and have not?…I ask myself at the farmer’s market when David shows me the black radishes that I use in risotto or when Sarah takes me to the ranch…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news Olympic athletes: you have a very small chance at winning part of a meteor next year. The Upworthy generator is my favorite thing today. The Lake Monsters of America is pretty great though too. Picturing the Large Hadron…
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Dispatch from the Carnival #2: The Snake Charmer
Sideshows themselves are a place where people come to see a public display of their private fears. Fear of deformity, of a disruption of the gender binary, of mutation, of disfigurement, of a crossover with the animal world, of being…
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Notable Chicago 11/24–11/30
Sunday 11/24: The Chicago Book Expo is taking over St. Augustine College! Come spend the day listening to authors of all stripes (including Rumpus favorites Sam Irby, Dimitry Samarov, Martha Bayne, and Aleksander Hemon) talk about their passions and projects. Buy…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ruptured
I think about that night a lot, how I knew the ambulance was coming for us. Call me Magic, if you want. I won’t object. Who doesn’t want to be called Magic? Was it magic or do we always know…
