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Some Notes on Lyricism
“Like most people, I would rather be someone else. The prose this other self would write would be sharp and coiled, deadly like a snake; not all soggy and attenuated like a garden hose, spritzing dewily, indiscriminately, over thorns and…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
At Maud, how much should philosophy and fiction have anything to do with each other? If you liked Julie Klausner’s interview here at The Rumpus and want more, she has another interview over at The New Yorker Book Bench. (Spoiler…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
In my (wow, it’s already been almost a) year here as Sunday editor at The Rumpus, I’ve never seen a week with so much incredible content. If you missed it, come take a peek.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I’m always interested in new and engaging ways to bring writing to people, so with that in mind, Diagram’s 10th Anniversary issue is out–well, it’s not an issue, exactly. It’s a deck of cards. But I bought it, and everyone…
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Acts of the Faculty
There’s often a bit of overlap between writers and academia–not as much of one as those of us on the job market would like at times, but it’s there all the same. And so to my fellow writer/teachers, or for…
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Real Talk
Should memoirs be reviewed – or is any criticism of personal writing by definition ad hominem? There is an intense conversation taking place over in the comments section of our recent review of Kathleen Rooney’s For You, For You I…
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SMALL POTATOES:
High & Low ArtClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Not to brag or anything
But have you noticed who reads and links to us? Yeah, we’re moving up in the world. Love you too, Andrew. May I call you Andrew?
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Saturday
MorningAfternoon LinksSome technical troubles this morning, but it looks like we’re up and running again. I take comfort in the fact that while I’ve written some pretty stupid things on my own blog during the past six years, I’ve never made…
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Anywhere But L.A.
In stories that range through history, serendipity, speculation, whimsy, and horror, Daniel Olivas chronicles the lives of characters who have loved—and lost—Los Angeles.
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FUNNY WOMEN #16: Project Runway
“Then you’ve got Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. He was handsome too and his eye patch debonair. He was in the German Army High Command, fought under Rommel and did lots of brave things.”