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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Dennis Hopper Has Died
The story of Dennis Hopper and the Dynamite Death Chair: “Later Hopper would say blowing himself up was one of the craziest things he has ever done, and that it was weeks before he could hear again. At the moment,…
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Still a Drugstore Cowboy
“Mr. Fogle, hooded and wearing a pink bandana over his face while holding trash cans filled with drugs in both hands, was arrested as he walked out the back door of the Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy on a busy street in…
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San Francisco Writing Classes
Do you live in San Francisco? Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is giving a lecture on Writing From Experience June 12 at the San Francisco Writers Grotto. Reserve a space here. For a full list of Grotto classes go here.
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Fixing Facebook
“Online privacy expectations are evolving, but whether Facebook likes it or not, a lot of us want the privacy settings we signed up for when we joined the service. Here’s how to use Facebook’s new privacy controls to regain your…
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White Torture
“After I recanted my false confession, my main interrogator essentially told me he knew I was not a spy. My captors may have wanted to use my false confession to intimidate Iranians advocating better relations with the West. They may…
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A Biographer of Violence
“Means’s fictional worlds are ominous, pre-apocalyptic, the hiss after a match is struck but before it ignites. A typical hillside is, ‘silent and gritty, with condoms curled like snakeskins in the weeds, and the ash craters, and the used needles,…
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“I meet 35 (exact number) people a year.”
“I went to the Tin House party last night in the city, and it was one of the best publishing-related parties I have been to in a long time.” A fun little write-up of Tuesday’s Tin House party in Brooklyn…
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Franzen Fiction
“If Patty hadn’t been an atheist, she might have thanked the good Lord for school athletic programs, because they basically saved her life and gave her a chance to realize herself as a person.” The New Yorker has posted new…
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“The reader is always doing you a favor.”
The Daily Rumpus is an email Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes and sends out anywhere from two to five times a week. Most of them are not posted online, but subscribing is free. Just send an email here. This is…