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Safety Rope
No touching unless he touches you. No touching where people can see. No touching unless dared to touch. Brad makes the rules, but never says them aloud.
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A New Jungle Book
At Bitch, Soleil Ho examines the changing interpretations of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, as seen through the novel’s the many film adaptations over the years.
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/2–5/8
Monday 5/2: Naomi Hirahara discusses and signs Sayonara Slam. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. It’s the first Monday of the month! Dust off those cute pants you have, because it’s time to strut your stuff at the Speakeasy/Open Mic Night. Sign-ups…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, we close out National Poetry Month with Sophie Klahr breaking down literary conventions in “Slant,” and Sandra Simonds offering two powerful poems about sexuality and shame. Meanwhile, Brandon Hicks illustrates what he has learned from famous author’s photos. Then, in the Saturday Interview with…
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The Self as a Cultural Artifact
[Memoir] comes alive at the fissures of its coherency: when a narrator is struggling to hold the self together in a text—for the reader’s sake if not also her own. Scott F. Parker met up with Maggie Nelson at AWP to…
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Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown
Louisa Dunnigan reviews Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown today in Rumpus Books.
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Pride, Prejudice, and Reality TV
For The Millions, David Busis chats with Curtis Sittenfeld about her recent release Eligible, a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. In the interview, Sittenfeld discusses the challenges that come up when modernizing older works, and how reality television served…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I don’t care if you’ve already read too many Lemonade think-pieces, it’s time to read what Hilton Als has to say. Longstory short: Walt Whitman pretty much was a cooler Ron Swanson. Here’s that Japanese map of European stereotypes you…
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The Rumpus Interview with Brendan Jones
Brendan Jones talks about his debut novel, The Alaskan Laundry, living in Alaska, his time as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, and living and loving what you write.
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National Poetry Month Day 31: Sandra Simonds
Confessional Poem I fucked your husband and I don’t feel __bad enough for the bourgeoisie. My sexuality roughly translating into teenage vampire, __my blood a pop song programmed to some _____dumb catastrophe.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Anne Enright
Anne Enright, author of, most recently, the novel The Green Road, talks with Elizabeth Isadora Gold about motherhood in reality and in fiction, and writing beyond labels and easy definitions.
