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Are you a Lonely Writer? Meet The Owls.
Writers are always lamenting the lonely journey of being in a room by oneself armed with just words and coffee. Other artists seem to enjoy the benefits of collaboration, why not us? Enter The Owls, a self-described “site for collaborative…
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Out of Exile
Today we have an interview with Craig Walzer, editor of the Voice of Witness book Out of Exile: Narratives From the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan. Craig discusses how he became involved in the project, his experiences in Sudan,…
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I Just Want to See It Through: A Full Story from Out of Exile
Alweel’s smile shone and her voice chirped Arabic as she told her story deliberately and in deep detail. We took breaks for chocolate and tea after difficult episodes. It took two days for her to unfurl all of her experiences,…
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Disturbing Journeys: A Look Inside Sex Trafficking
The recent Tides Momentum Leadership Conference featured innovators and activists from around the world passionate about discussing current challenges and striving to forge a more equitable and sustainable society. One such activist, Mimi Chakarova, has spent an extensive amount of…
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Gigantic Goes Live
Gigantic, A Magazine of Short Prose and Art just launched its online version with chapter 18 of Shya Scanlon’s Forecast 42 Project, new fiction from J.A. Tyler, and art by Thomas Doyle. The online journal also houses Joe Wenderoth’s Seizure…
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The Rumpus Interview with Craig Walzer
“We need to be able to digest and give people who are very far away the time and space to tell their story in their own words
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Morning Coffee
Was today a good day? In Bb is an interactive and collaborative music project that is more than a little bit mind blowing. San Francisco was recently host to an unseasonable thunder storm, that is nothing compared to the 8…
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TRUTH SERUM:
Two Times the Dysfunction (Part 3)Truth Serum books, and if you don’t want those, postcards with vaginas.
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“Intelligibility Porn”
I tried to show some restraint. But it is now 11:59pm Eastern time, and The Rumpus, an ostensibly bookish website, still has not marked, observed, or otherwise commented on today’s release of The Lost Symbol, the new book by Dan Brown. This deserves…
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“I’m a Big Roger Miller Fan Myself.”
There’s an interview with Rudy Wurlitzer over at Chuck Palahniuk’s site; we recently reviewed his first novel, Nog. Although the introduction features some questionable vocab (Wurlitzer is said to be “imminently” readable, which I guess means he’s always about to be…