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“Girls Gone Gory”
Rumpus contributor Michelle Orange just posted a scream of an article in The New York Times about women in horror films. Specifically focusing on the upcoming Jennifer’s Body, the article “Taking Back the Knife—Girls Gone Gory” details the complex role…
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Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Lydia Peelle’s stories focus on scurrilous ne’er-do-wells who flail about in circumstances beyond their control.
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Aaron Gilbreath: The Last Book I Loved, Ray
I used to think I was somewhat daring as a reader, but apparently I was not. After reading Barry Hannah’s story collection Airships, I bought five of his other books in a flurry of excitement; then they sat there on…
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Trailer
David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is being made into a movie. More info here. (via Gawker)
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The Rumpus Interview With Uwem Akpan
“After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.”
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The Adderall Diaries
The Adderall Diaries page has been updated to include a great review that ran today in Bookslut and more information on our low income galley giveaway. More here.
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Save the Words
By the end of my last “relationship,” we had so few words left for each other. How many other ways could we say, “I’m sorry” or “I unlove you” or “fuck you”? We used up all the words we knew…
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“We Got Off on Being Puppeteers.”
Tamler Sommers of The Believer recently interviewed Dr. Phil Zimbardo about his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. The 1971 experiment randomly assigned intelligent, normal, healthy young men to the role of prisoner or guard. What began as an investigation into the…
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Mourning the Book
I expected to feel a sense of accomplishment when I finished Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose,” but instead I felt lost, grief-stricken. It was a mixture of sadness for the main character and a fear that I might yet ruin…
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Adam Robinson: The Last Book I Loved, Alaska
I can’t figure out why James Michener gets such short shrift. Is it because he’s too popular? Or because he had help with his painstaking geographical research? The critical disregard doesn’t bother me, though, except that I wish there was…
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Morning Coffee
Giant rat discovered in secret volcano. The new species of rat doesn’t have a name yet, if anyone has any ideas. Slate on new bubble technologies. Man accidentally fires a cannon through neighbor’s house. Buddha shaped pears are a pretty…
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Diary of a Young Survivor
A playwright’s first novel takes on adolescence and grief in a post-9/11 world