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DFW’s Grammar Challenge
“IF NO ONE HAS YET TAUGHT YOU HOW TO AVOID OR REPAIR CLAUSES LIKE THE FOLLOWING, YOU SHOULD, IN MY OPINION, THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SUING SOMEBODY, PERHAPS AS CO-PLAINTIFF WITH…
Ramona Falls: “I Say Fever”
“My favorite music video of the year.” –Dan Chaon (via @Danchaon) Read The Rumpus interview with Chaon here. [Editor’s note: This song has been featured as a Rumpus Tune of…
(Large) Stocking Stuffer?
Rumpus books editor Andrew Altschul‘s first novel, Lady Lazarus, is on sale for an obscenely low price this holiday season: for less than $7 (with shipping) you get the mint-condition…
Morning Coffee
Feelin’ kind of teenaged today. Vintage Polish fashion magazine advertisements? Yes please. Hearing with our skin. Department of beautiful but terrifying implications: Dead tire graveyard. Guardian UK on the unsure…
The Rumpus Interview with Poetry Rock Star Eileen Myles
“Waste is good, important. Especially in art. It’s not the perfectly placed and chosen object that rules. It’s a pile of things and one might catch your eye but its…
“Baywatch,” “Short People,” and “Saving Wasted Breath”
Three poems by Jennifer L. Knox, author of Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, have been posted over at The Awl. Give ’em a read. (via @R_Nash)
Larry Is Also Troubled By a Bear
“Composed as a series of vignettes, pivotal moments in a troubled man’s peripatetic life, the narrative flits within the gray area between poetry and prose and, while it dispenses with…
Fog Is Also Good for This
Jamie Iredell weaves a drug-and-alcohol fueled journey out of brief, vivid bursts of language.
Equinox Oral Histories #2
As part of Daniel Nester’s English 251: Interviews and Oral History class, students took trips down to Equinox, a community services center in downtown Albany, New York, to interview some…