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National Poetry Month: Day 21. “Questions for the Quest” by Reb Livingston

Questions for the Quest Zirconza of the Blest Flare wanted her someday sometime soon. How was she—with those flinty fingers—supposed to feed those slippy fishes? That was the first question.

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Morning Coffee

Morning Coffee

Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon clears a few things up about Ke$ha. There are pictures here of: Salvador Dali jumping, Audrey Hepburn jumping, a dressed-up monkey jumping. The canine as…

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The Baffler 2.0

Can a resuscitated left-wing publication—a print publication!—thrive in the hostile economic conditions of 2010? The editors of The Baffler are betting it can.

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Features & Reviews

“The pain, confusion, absurdity, and humor of grief…”

“How and what we tell ourselves about our lives matters. The words we choose matter, and how we shape the story matters.” Grace Talusan reviews Katherine Shonk’s debut novel, Happy…

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Media

“Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users’ profiles, “including your current city, hometown, education and work,…

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Happy Now?

A debut novel about a young husband’s suicide explores the pain, confusion, absurdity, and even humor of grief.

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Film

SFIFF53: Dispatch #1, Events Preview

The largest and, arguably, the most glamorous film festival in San Francisco is about to get underway for the 53rd year in a row, and the Rumpus has been watching…

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Cross-Dressing Vollmann

“As she works on me, I fall into a drowse, enjoying the caress of the black brush, the sound of rain outside, Yukiko standing over me. I gaze up at…

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FUNNY WOMEN #22: My Life as Performance Art–An Exhibition

“I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.” – Marina Abramovic

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“One synonym for passion is a willingness to lie…”

“The world is not designed to make it easy for you to create and distribute your writing. You say what you have to say and do what you have to…

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Features & Reviews

Alienation, Belonging, and History…

“In the strongest poems in Water the Moon, the complex relationships between language and image underscore Sze-Lorrain’s themes of alienation and homelessness in a way that allows the reader to…

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National Poetry Month: Day 21. “Questions for the Quest” by Reb Livingston

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The Baffler 2.0

“The pain, confusion, absurdity, and humor of grief…”

Further Loss of Control

Happy Now?

SFIFF53: Dispatch #1, Events Preview

Cross-Dressing Vollmann

FUNNY WOMEN #22: My Life as Performance Art–An Exhibition

“One synonym for passion is a willingness to lie…”

Alienation, Belonging, and History…

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