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Isaac Fitzgerald
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“Age 21: Small Fires”
“I write a creative senior thesis, five short stories. I name it Small Fires. There’s a collection of poetry by Raymond Carver called Fires. These are smaller ones, I guess.” Rumpus contributor Eric Puchner, author of today’s essay about titling…
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Pitchfork Responds
Meaghan O’Connell, Director of Outreach at Tumblr, has posted her response to a user’s accusation (plus an exclusive response to Tumblr users here on The Rumpus) that Tumblr “stole” their domain at “the behest of a corporation.” For those catching…
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Stolen Site?
“I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood…
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“This is not a decision we made lightly.”
“Oh, hey Canada. Yeah, come on in. Have a seat. No, you won’t need to take notes or anything. This is really pretty straightforward. Here’s the thing, Canada – we’re going to have to let you go.” Frequent Rumpus contributor…
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What Tao Is Reading
Tao Lin hast posted his reading diary, including only books he has “finished or anticipate[s] finishing.” The list includes Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, Baby Hedgehogs and American Apparel Dog, and The Blue Octavo Notebooks. Do you have a book…
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“We Got Lost for a While”
“[The Ticking is the Bomb] pushes readers to acknowledge, if not meditate on, the urges lurking inside us, those we tamp down in order to continue, to resist the impulses (conscious or not) to hurt ourselves, the ones we love,…
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“Feeling Like I Was Getting Somewhere.”
“My own path into writing songs comes directly through literature. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a capital-A author, and I wrote short stories on an old Royal typewriter all the time. That was how I spent…
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Mo Money Mo Problems
“Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come.” Karl Rabeder is a millionaire, but “he is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune” because he is unsatisfied with his luxurious lifestyle. [Dear Karl: The Rumpus gladly accepts…