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“You are a true man.” A letter writer’s delight!
In what has to be one of the best examples of correspondence history, Letters of Note has published a fan letter from a young Bram Stoker to Walt Whitman: “The four years which have elapsed have made me love your…
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Literature in Your Skin
If you need a few minutes to break away from your day, why don’t you head on over to Tattoo Lit, where the word is made flesh. It is updated regularly with submissions of tattoos inspired by literature. Virginia Woolf,…
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Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don’t Exist by Agnieszka Kuciak
Kevin Dublin reviews Agnieszka Kuciak’s Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don’t Exist today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Letters Festival
The Letters Festival is happening now in Atlanta. A three day literature festival with writing workshops, panels, and readings. If you’re in town, go see our very own Rumpus editor Roxane Gay at The Goat Farm Arts Center at 6:30…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Real talk, if you haven’t yet you should really read Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene. New advances in the world of dog origin theories. Paper dresses used to be a pretty big thing. Here are some pictures of…
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Readers Report: Magic
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Magic.”
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Pioneer Women
My own mother bought our clothes at the mall. She didn’t allow pork in the house and mostly cooked curry. The saris she wore didn’t require needlework. Growing up in Wyoming, Nina McConigley longed for an authentic pioneer life like…
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“Write What You Feel Like Writing”
For the Believer, Lane Koivu interviews our fearless leader Stephen Elliott about, among other things, “the thrill of finding himself in the director’s chair, the time he nearly got locked up by a psychiatrist in San Francisco, and why he’s always in…
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When All the Ice is Gone
National Geographic has created a pretty fascinating look at a world where all the glaciers have melted. Check out their interactive map. Or don’t. It’s kind of terrifying.
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Lit-Mags in Pop Culture
“Does anybody outside of our circle care?” asks The Millions’ Nick Ripatrazone in a post about literary magazines. “What is the wider cultural influence of literary magazines?” To try to figure it out, he looks at pop-culture depictions of lit-mags,…
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Week 11
What breaks my heart both as a Vikings fan and a human being is that, in spite of all this, I kind of like Mike Ditka.
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Malcolm X’s Diary Released
Today marks the (probable) publication of the diary that Malcolm X kept “during the last year of his life as he broke away from the Nation of Islam and traveled throughout Africa and the Middle East.” It’s coedited by one…