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The Rumpus Red Carpet Report: Live from 5 Under 35
On Monday, November 15, National Book Award week kicked off with the annual “5 Under 35” celebration, at which five young fiction writers were feted at the PowerHouse Arena in Brooklyn.
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The Rumpus Review of Stone
If the only thing you’ve seen of the new Robert De Niro/Edward Norton film, Stone, is the trailer, you may feel that your membership in the Robert De Niro Disappointment Club has been justified yet again.
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Intoxication with the Glory: Book Club Round-Up
The Guardian‘s Nicholas Lezard examines Tao Lin‘s Richard Yates. “It is all achingly hip,” Lezard writes, “in its studied avoidance of the depths that literary fiction is meant to plumb. And that might be the end of the matter –…
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Second ‘Donkey Blogger’ Released
Yesterday we told you about the release of Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video in which…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #57: That Ecstatic Parade
You mustn’t live with people who wish to annihilate you.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
At Google, “do no evil” means “pay us if you want us to do evil” when it comes to helping the government spy on you. For the mobile gamers: Pocket Legends MMO goes cross-platform, adding Android support to the iOS…
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Steal This Blog Post
“In a recent New York Magazine article about Frey’s new fiction factory, Frey is quoted saying that documentary is ‘a thesis on truth that hasn’t been proven yet’ and that he ‘should have never fucking apologized’ to Oprah. Many would…
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A Long Talk with Burns
“I was hooked at a really early age. I was looking at a lot of different things. The style I started emulating more was the classic comics style.” Cartoonist Charles Burns talk with the A.V. Club about his new book,…
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I Know My Brother In the Mirror
Michael Klein’s then, we were still living is a thoughtful, emotional book that treats death in a fresh, even endearing way.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Friday and who doesn’t love little people street art? My forefathers come from the land of terrible teeth it turns out. Did you know the World Fencing Championship just happened? The Big Picture did! Keepin’ it classy: Beardsley’s…
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Dinaw Mengestu on Writers Block
Click here to listen to Dinaw Mengestu read a passage from How to Read the Air. Click here to read the Rumpus interview with Mengestu.