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Voices From The Government Shutdown
What do you do if you live in Washington, D.C. in the midst of a federal government shutdown that leaves 800,000 people out of work and affects millions of others? If you’re Sean Carman, a writer, environmental lawyer, and longtime…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
You guys, the Eames were just the best! Perhaps you have wondered how cats see the world. Very important: you can’t eat roadkill in Montana YET. These newly discovered bats are pretty great (at hearing things). And now a compendium…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sabine Heinlein
Journalist Sabine Heinlein, author of Among Murderers: Life After Prison, discusses the challenges ex-cons encounter on their journeys to freedom and the various ways they live with their remorse.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Marjorie Celona
This next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Marjorie Celona! Here’s an excerpt: Harrison asked Vincent to imagine that he was an old pony who’d been bought at auction by a woman and lived most of his life in a shed…
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Life As We Know It
In her recent piece on Salon, “Am I an alcoholic?” writer Kathleen Volk Miller describes the way her mother and her sister lost themselves in drink, contrasting this with her own decision to be in control of her booze, not the…
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BAKED MEMORIES
Proust left out one important detail: the recipe. And no one ever asked him for it. We all know the famous passage of Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” in which the author’s mind flies back to childhood after tasting…
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Mystery to the End
I want to pull her close, know her secrets. There’s the prolific writer, who I can admire. There’s also the murderer who compels, with that wicked glamour of the killer.
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A Farewell to the Profane
“Profanity shocks nobody anymore,” writes Brad Leithauser in a recent essay for The New Yorker, and still, there remain “unusable words,” words that cannot be used because they might also mean their opposites, or because they are overused, or when…
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The gift of not responding
There’s a big secret Twitter doesn’t want you to know, as Choire Sicha writes in a recent article on The Awl. “You don’t have to respond to anyone on Twitter. Ever.” Sicha lists a number of reasons one might choose…
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A Computer Game Comes to Life
“I discovered Hitler the summer I turned twelve,” Michael Clune writes of the summer he spent playing the computer game “Beyond Castle Wolfenstein” in his Granta essay, “World War II Has Never Ended.” As the summer progresses, history is made and…
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Alice Munro Round-Up
As you may have heard by now, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature! If you are not familiar with Munro’s work, Slate has a list of her best stories to read first. Find out why The New Yorker…
