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Dear Asshole
Rumpus contributor Steve Almond recently self-published a collection of hate mail that was sent to him (along with his responses) entitled Letters From People Who Hate Me. You can read…
Heads and Feathers on the UES
Mallards with human heads are not what I expect to see on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But that’s what I saw. Yesterday. And I wasn’t scared, because I…
Dante’s Hell
A couple of weeks ago we posted a picture of what must be the worst Dante’s Inferno cover of all time (click the link to view the pic). To quote…
Morning Coffee
This is all very serious. Everything in the world is going to be ok because this link is filled with tiny pandas. Polish sound postcards. The Royal Shakespeare Company is…
Presto Book-O (Why I Went Ahead and Self-Published)
To say that I’ve had a checkered history in publishing would be like saying Elizabeth Taylor had a checkered history in marriage.
About Last Night
Last night we had a blast at the February Monthly Rumpus at The Make-Out Room. But don’t take our word for it. The SF Weekly has published a recap of…
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Steve Almond‘s self-published collection of one-page stories and essays, This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey, is now available for purchase online thanks to Harvard Books.
What the Girls Call ‘Murder’
A funny thing happened on the way to the “angry grrrl rock revolution which seeks to save the psychic and cultural lives of girls and women everywhere”…
The March Monthly Rumpus
The Rumpus and McSweeney’s Proudly Present: Sleeping With Friends March 8th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Jesse Nathan, Jami Attenberg,…