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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…
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Girls in the Grass
I tell Hairy Mary’s mom that I get $466.00 a month in social security and she can have the whole thing for food and lights and stuff, if she’ll let me stay.
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Real Thanksgiving Stories for Young Readers
Are you a teacher or parent looking for realistic thanksgiving literature? No, not the books about Native Americans and pilgrims carving a turkey together but children books that tell the real story? Check out Indian Country’s list of young adult…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Katherine Zlabek
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Katherine Zlabek! Here’s an excerpt: There is a rocking chair in the house. The wood is solid. The varnish is worn. The seat was once a thick, flat oak sheet. Now it is…
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Imagematic Writing
Screenwriter Scott Myers explains how closely poetry relates to screenwriting over on his Go Into the Story blog.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Hines
Of the estimated 1,500 people to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, only thirty-four are known to have survived. Kevin Hines is one of them.
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The Books We Teach
When asked to give advice to creative writers, Rick Moody answered, “It’s more about the rewriting than the writing.” At the Ploughshares’ blog, Erinrose Mager interviews Rumpus Columnist Moody on his teaching method and the (im)possible intertwinings between his classes…
