Help Us Make A “Letters to Each Other” Radio Story
Last year we did something called Letters to Each Other, where Rumpus readers sent us a letter, and we sent you back six letters from other people. We think we want…
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Karen Duffin
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Karen lives, writes, and produces radio in New York.
A Letter to the People Who Wrote Letters to Each Other
A month ago we announced Letters to Each Other, which allowed subscribers to Letters in the Mail to send a one page letter and SASE.
Facebook Chats With Random Men #16: Fakhir Returns
Fakhir returns to discuss the mysteries of God and parking with Alina Simone in this round of Chats With Random Men.
How to Seduce Men
Turns out The Great Gatsby is good for more than passing eighth grade English – try seduction. May not get you a marriage proposal, but might be good for a…
Used Is In
Used books are on the rise, fueling book sales from Salt Lake City to Saint Louis. Take notes, Wall Street – while not many companies can say they made money…
Eighteen Months in Love: The God of Small Things
I finished The God of Small Things in a pleathery airplane seat 30,000 feet above who-knows-where during the year and a half I lived in India as a speechwriter for an executive…
Good News for Publishing (and Maybe You): Bigger Isn’t Better
Ryerson Review of Journalism brings hope to small publications by giving three good reasons that bigger may not be better – Geez, Spacing, and Broken Pencil; and why they’re tiny but…
Every Book Asks for Something Different
Tracy Kidder talks to the Bygone Bureau about the danger of rereading your work: “Only two things can happen, and neither one is good. Either I’m reading and think how…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #19: Karen Duffin in Conversation with Laura Stevens
Laura Stevens has great hair. The best hair in the room, 94.3% of the time. It makes me jealous. She is the only non-adopted child of her parents’ six children. …