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Murs Drops Fresh Science
Off the album “Murs for President.” (On a sidenote: Murs touches on the sentencing disparities between crack convictions and cocaine convictions in this damn good video. President Obama is pretty overhyped so we try not to talk about him too…
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Little Book: Of Molehills and Mountains
On occasion, into this marketing-shaped reality comes a work whose writing is matched by the originality of its form.
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American Poet Missing
This one’s not a joke. Poet Craig Arnold has been missing in Japan for three days. The latest news we’ve heard is that the U.S. has sent helicopters and personnel to assist local authorities in searching a small volcanic island…
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The Plans to Rebuild Civilization are Set in Stone and Waiting in Georgia
Econopocalypse. Swine flu. Arlen Specter becoming a Democrat. Ladies and gentlemen, it is only a matter of time before every 12 out of 13 of us are dead … and those who are left will be cold, hungry, and alone.…
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STORIES WE RECOMMEND: “The Mourning Door”
Nearly a decade after Ploughshares published it, Elizabeth Graver’s short story “The Mourning Door” remains shrouded in a slippery surrealism that’s at once impenetrable and, simultaneously, the source of the piece’s staying power. In it, Graver’s pregnant narrator discovers a…
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What You Think is Sad: Gabriele Basilico and San Francisco Noir
She always knew it would come to this. A screaming horde of bucknaked smutcrazed rapists banging on her glass ticket kiosk. She crossed herself and with a single prayer commended her soul to the Lord’s Everafter and consigned her flesh…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lily Burana
Lily Burana is the founding editor of Taste Of Latex, the author of stripper memoir Strip City and Western novel Try.
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Swiss Dots for Depressionistas
There is, some believe, a place where short shorts and flash fiction fall in with fashion. The uncharted literary territory of J. Peterman; Brooks Brothers by way of Borges; J.Crew jewel tones via Jelinek. This stead for despairing fashionables is…
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We Are Each Other’s Spiders
Burnt Shadows is the most admirable new novel I have read in a long time, a work of astonishing naturalism, wisdom, and grace.
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Strunk and White take it on the chin
The Elements of Style, the classic writing handbook by E.B. White and William Strunk, Jr., just turned fifty. The New York Times celebrated by posting the opinions of five “experts” on its blog about the book. All of them turn…