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Julie Greicius

Julie Greicius was Art Editor for The Rumpus when it launched in January 2009. One year later, she became Senior Literary Editor, and later, Senior Features Editor. Julie also co-edited the first book published by The Rumpus, Rumpus Women, Vol. 1, featuring personal essays and illustration from twenty kick-ass contributors. Her writing been featured on The Rumpus, Midnight Breakfast, Stanford Medicine Magazine, and BuzzFeed, as well as in the anthology The 27th Mile. She lives in California and is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board.
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    Nikko Available in San Francisco

    Delfin Vigil’s fantastic true story Nikko: Concrete Commando, first published here on The Rumpus, was also beautifully self-published in the real world. If you’re in San Francisco, you can now buy Nikko at Aquarius Records, Dog Eared Books, or Needles…

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    Dear Dr. Thompson: The Rumpus Interview with Matthew L. Moseley

    That’s what Hunter would have really wanted for people to understand, how one little letter can change your life.

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    Andrew Abbott

    The paintings of Andrew Abbott run a broad, beautiful range of darkness and humor. Several of his paintings remind me of Picasso: “Say No to Durgs” [sic] has all the conflict and chaos of “Guernica,” for example. Others, with their…

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    Your Words Might Know You Better Than You Do

    “I was seeing something about the human mind. I was seeing the author in the text in a way that people hadn’t seen the author in the text before.” Jed Abumrad of Radiolab talks with scientists about how our use…

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    Speak with Conviction

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    Julia Weist at Idiom

    “…I was outed on a chicklit book forum pretending to be a fan of the book and concealing my role as author. The forum administrator who suspended me was named FunkyTown, and the exchange became one of the vignettes performed…

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    Thelma & Louise of Poetry

    If ever two female poets were going to clutch hands and drive off a cliff together, it would be Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper.

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    The Cutting Edge of Balloon Delivery

    “You as yourself can be invisible.”

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    Richard Porter at the February Rumpus

    Most people would be content to watch Richard Porter watching paint dry. But at the next Monthly Rumpus on February 8th, Rich—who is Hooping.org’s male hooper of the year—will storm the stage with his stunning talent as a hoopdancer. By…

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    The Sexies

    Most of the time, the topic of sex makes so many journalists spin moralistic, accusatory or just plain inaccurate. For those who are able to keep their wits about them, there are The Sexies. The Sex Positive Journalism Awards foster…

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    Matthew McCarthy’s Film/Art Gallery

    Lisa Ano, in the New York Times Style Magazine, shares a few delicious images and some back story from Matthew McCarthy’s web-based Film/Art Gallery. McCarthy’s searchable collection contains more than 3,000 images, most of which are “rare and foreign posters,…

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    Film Family Portraits

    “All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike.” So explains Tolstoy in Anna Karenina (as translated by Nabokov in Ada). The multimedia artist Kirk Demarais captures some of these similarities in his…