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Notable New York, This Week 9/28-10/4
This week in New York, Charles Simic reads, Spin Mag hosts Salman Rushdie, The New York Film Festival opens, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Peter Sellars’ production of Othello and Robert Lepage’s “Mindblowing” Lipsynch begins at BAM. Monday, September 28,…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #4
Feng shui? Fuck that, Doug. This katana sword is going right over the headboard. It’s sexy.
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Magic Gardens: The Rumpus Interview With Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas’ saucy new memoir Magic Gardens is about stripping in Portland, Oregon during the 90’s when the “stripping as performance art” trend was taking hold and pro-porn feminism was a fledgling idea.
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Morning Coffee
Important science news: the universe is delicious! Need a good hideout? Al Capone’s is for sale. The American Girl homeless doll is surprisingly expensive. Or maybe not surprisingly, I don’t even know anymore. On the distance between McDonald’s. The final…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
It’s your humble Sunday guest editor back in the hot seat again for another wild ride through the bookblogosphere! Today is special to me because the Folsom Fair will be happening which, if you’ve never been, is one of the…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week The Rumpus brings you essays, an interview, a blurb and a review or two from good people like Michelle Orange and Josh Bearman and other special luminaries.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Happy 121st Birthday, T.S. Eliot. Edward Byrne talks about Eliot’s careful control of where and how his poetry appeared, especially as regards anthologies. Joel Brouwer explores the concept of the speed review. What I want to know is why I’m…
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Getting a Little Gunshy
Even the apolitical in the US had to notice what happened in August with the town hall eruptions with their cries of socialism and the many, many racist slogans and pictures on protest signs. The absurdity might have reached its…
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Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Let’s face it: Even when you’re breaking up with a Dungeon Master who used to call you his “Faerie Dragon,” you still know you’re breaking up.
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Science Saturday
Space photography gets me every time. Maybe it’s because for the last six years I’ve lived in places where I’m lucky if I see a handful of stars because of all the light pollution, or maybe it’s all the Star…
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Plug and Play Genetic Engineering
There are times when the line between exhilarating and terrifying is a fine one, and