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Rumpus Writers Help Define Modern Literature
Flavorwire’s Jason Diamond has compiled a list of fifty books that defined the past five years of literature. From the universally acclaimed (Wolf Hall) to the controversial (what purpose did i serve in your life), from the literary heavyweights (Tenth of…
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Pain Is Not the Only Truth
Medical museums tend to be short on art and long on the preserved remains of bodies with diseases or deformities. Riva Lehrer, an artist with spina bifida, wants to change that. As she explained in a recent talk titled “Jarred:…
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World History Plot Holes?
A meteor killing off the dinosaurs was obviously a cop out because the author didn’t know where to take the story. This was just one of several responses on Reddit’s thread “Assume all of world history is a movie. What…
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The Rumpus Interview with Owen King
We sit down with Rumpus contributor Owen King to talk about his latest book, Double Feature, paying homage to movies that are unintentionally funny, and only using research that gives a story meaning.
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“Why Are We So Poor?”
That’s how hard it is to see a doctor in Southeast Texas. People take a day off work to drive two hours to a student-run clinic that can only provide basic care. In a brutal portrait of the personal reality…
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On Transgender Poetry
At the Los Angeles Review of Books this week, Stephen Burt reviews the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and discusses how poetry allows us, reader and author alike, to inhabit a body or being better or…
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Fantasy Football for Poets, Week 12
I’m writing about three players who have all quit America’s most popular and visible sport mid-season. Their reasons for quitting are as different as their trajectories, but in each of them, there are shards of a much larger and tragic…
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Melissa Petro on The Writing Cure
Melissa Petro, whose Rumpus essay “Not Safe For Work” contributed to getting her fired from a teaching job, writes in this month’s The New Inquiry about what she calls “The Writing Cure”—how writing about traumatic or damning life events offers…
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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Graham Oliver reviews George Orwell’s HOMAGE TO CATALONIA today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Thomas Page McBee Now Managing Editor at PolicyMic
Our Self-Made Man columnist Thomas Page McBee has just become managing editor at political website PolicyMic! We’re overjoyed to see his immense writing talent has found another place to shine. Congrats, Thomas, and we look forward to seeing you “refine…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Maybe people were in the Americas a lot earlier than we thought (and killing giant sloths). New York is a real toxic town. The world is full of awesome things part 1: Finnish golden ratio tree mountain. The world is…
