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Funny Women Submission Guidelines
Dear Writers, So, you’ve decided you’re a woman or gender non-conforming writer and would like to submit to Funny Women. Out of all decisions, this is the best one you can make. Submit: Direct your entry to our Rumpus submission manager…
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Fear and Self-Loathing
“Losing my job was a wake up call. But being disregarded as a person lit a fire in my gut. I started my car and peeled out, middle finger extended and the burden of five unhappy years left behind.” From…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #21
Do you trust this guy enough to level with him about your concerns?
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Random Media Notes Update
“Jericho Scott was the 9-year-old who briefly became a media sensation when he was deemed ‘too good’ to pitch in his youth league. A year later, Craig Fehrman checks in on Jericho and finds that everyone got the story wrong.”…
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Random Media Notes
Sam Zell is preparing to abandon the Chicago Tribune. Wall Street Journal discrimination lawsuit proceeds to trial. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore says “Social media is the media.” MySpace acquires music sharing service iLike. “Travelers passing through London’s Heathrow Airport this…
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Promoting Punk
Nick Rombes is an associate professor and chair of the English department at University of Detroit Mercy. He is also the author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982, a book that is far more punk than its academic title…
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When The Perfect Story and Perfect Writer Are Matched
You get this incredible Sunday NYTimes Magazine piece from a couple weeks back by Jack Hitt. Hitt never goes wrong anyhow, but this odd tale of Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic’s hiding in plain sight in Belgrade as a long-haired…
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Underachieving as Art: The Rumpus Interview With Benjamin Anastas
Follow the curve, as it goes down… down… down… Such is the tone of Benjamin Anastas’ An Underachiever’s Diary, just recently reissued as a Dial Press Trade Paperback and concurrently billed as the “the funniest, most underappreciated book of the…
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The One?
“If you could read just one novel, what would it be?” That was the most recent query posed over at The Millions’ ongoing column Ask a Book Question. Many Millions contributors responded, recommending Slaughterhouse-Five, The Great Gatsby, and The Corrections…
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“Why Aren’t There Any Accordions?”
“JC: What is music good for that books aren’t? “DH: Driving, dancing around in your underwear, sitting around talking. “JC: What are books good for that music is no good at? “DH: Narrative, extrasensual immersion, cerebral bliss, philosophical and moral…