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Julie Morse
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A Literary Map of the US
At More Intelligent Life, have a look at Geoff Sawer’s Literary Map of the United States, in which he has crammed more than 200 authors, poets and cartoonists into an aesthetically charming work of cartography. The project demonstrates a “tight…
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Little House in the Big Woods
If figurines were awarded for completing twentysomething life-experience clichés, I have been angling for the entire set: the search for myself in central European beer halls; the move west to try growing up with the country; graduate school in New…
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Thriller Education
At Words Without Borders, B.J. Epstein expounds upon the culture of crime novels, its covert international influence and the diversity of fear. She also continues the necessary conversation of why Anglophones are relentlessly intimidated by translated literature. Why are English-language…
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Anticipatory Plagiarism
“Ultimately, as a reader and a writer, I find hope in resistance, in the very act of writing against this culture–even when it is without ‘the old excitement of creation’…” Suzanne Scanlon, Rumpus pal and author of Promising Young Women, talks about anticipatory…
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Think. Don’t Write.
“’I write every waking minute,’ I said. I meant, of course, that I am always writing in my head.” At Draft, novelist and teacher Silas House reflects on the practice of writing without putting pen to paper or fingers to…
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Qatari Poet Sentenced for Life
This past Thursday, after a five-minute hearing, Qatari poet Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami was sentenced to life in prison for his poem “Tunisian Jasmine,” in which he expressed support for the Arab Spring. The Qatari court convicted him of trying…
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McSweeney’s Holiday Party!
Come out this Thursday night to The Makeout Room from 7-10 for McSweeney’s annual Holiday Party! Tickets can be purchased here and guests receive a free copy of the Believer or Lucky Peach Magazine, treats from Dandelion Chocolate, Tiger Beer, Holiday Eats,…
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Tiny Beautiful Things Makes Every List
Brain Pickings has come up with a list of The 10 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2012, and #2 is our own Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things. Don’t forget you can purchase the book at our Rumpus Shop.
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Sleep Song, The Poetic Epilogue to War, Cancelled
Sleep Song, the third installment of Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s poetic performances that showcase stories about soldiers of color in wars, had its Harlem Stage show cancelled because its Iraqi performers were denied visas. At Colorlines, Seth Freed Wessler…
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Throwback Art
Nostalgic for the 90’s art scene? Specifically 1993? Mark your calendars for The New Museum’s exhibit “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set Thrash and No Star,” a title borrowed from the Sonic Youth record which was released that year. The show features…
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Tweet to Death
Check out Rumpus contributor Elliott Holt’s Brooklyn Twitter mystery. You have until the end of today to help decide if the death in question was a “#suicide, #homicide, or an #accident?”
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Gilgamesh Has It Goin’ On
This past spring, Russ Kick edited the first volume of The Graphic Canon, which intertwines works of literature ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh to A Picture of Dorian Gray accompanied with exquisite graphic art. Read the review at the…