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Shame Makes Us Who We Are
Anyone who has ever been in a creative writing workshop knows the type of shame ordinarily suffered only by lifestyle submissives. And in the new Bookforum, Mark Grief, while reviewing Mark McGurl’s The Program Era, plays with McGurl’s idea that…
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Can’t Tell Me Nothing
The Rumpus doesn’t really do Kanye West. It doesn’t hate him and it doesn’t love him. It just doesn’t go there. But when the self-proclaimed “voice of this generation“— in an interview for the release of his book, no less…
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Truth, Justice, the American Way, and Bondage
“In 1954, his eyesight failing and work hard to come by, (Superman co-creator Joe Shuster) accepted an invitation to illustrate the lurid stories that were to fill the pages of a magazine called Nights of Horror. Promising its readers “stories spiced…
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The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Good news! Your humble Rumpus Sunday editor, who was locked inside the Public Storage in North Berkeley for the better part of last night while helping his nine-months-pregnant friend move, has been rescued by the cops! And today, I’m excited…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Finished with the BEA? Had the best time of your life at You’re Not Alone, the Rumpus, McSweeney’s and SMITHMAG event last night in New York, and not sure how you could ever top the experience?
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The New Haven Review has an interview with David Orr, including Orr’s take on the spitting match between him and Dana Goodyear a couple of years ago. Poetry is on the radio again, thanks to WSUM. You can also listen…
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Did You Miss?
It was a good week for us here at The Rumpus. Ryan Boudinot reminisced about Spinal Tap, Peter Orner told us we are all Lizzie Borden, Stephen Elliott gave us the latest installment in An Oral History of Myself, and…
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You’re Looking at the Answer
I can save you some time if you’re thinking of going to this panel at the BEA today. We’re the future of book reviewing–or at least part of it. We do a lot of that around here, and not just…
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Yes, But Do They Have Anything To Say
Dr. Wolfgang Enard, head of a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, announced that genetically engineered mice who have had their FOXP2 gene swapped out for a human one (this gene is…
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Young Cons
Parody or serious statement of conservative principles? You decide. Favorite moment for me is the attempt to rhyme “merchant” with “restaurant.”