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Lauren O’Neal
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Writing Your First Book
When I started writing a novel I thought, I’m not ready, because I’ve only written short stories and nobody wants them, but I also thought, For Christ’s sake, what am I going to do? I can’t keep on like this.…
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Why Don’t Adjuncts Just Find a Different Job?
We’ve blogged before about the increasingly untenable state of academic careers and the plight of adjunct professors. If it’s as bad as all that, why don’t adjunct professors just quit and find a different job? The answer, according to Slate‘s L.V.…
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Have a Seat at the BAR
Check out the sparkling first issue of the Buenos Aires Review, an online literary/cultural magazine aiming to cultivate the conversation between the Americas with pieces in English and Spanish from writers in both North and South America. Some highlights include: –…
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Steve Almond Adds Class on Sex Writing
Steve Almond, our friend and author of not one but two Rumpus columns, is teaching three classes in the Bay Area on the weekend of December 7–8. In addition to the classes on obsession and humor in San Francisco that…
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“Write Like A Mother” Onesie Now Available for Pre-Order
Good news! The cutest thing to ever exist is now available for pre-order in our online store: the Write Like A Mother onesie. We know how many fierce writer moms wanted something a little more child-appropriate than the classic WLAM…
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“Because” Has New Meaning, Because Grammar
Like it or not, the meanings and uses of words are constantly shifting, because language. At the Atlantic, Megan Garber writes about how the word “because,” normally a subordinating conjunction, is increasingly being used as a preposition, with examples and possible…
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“The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself”
Why did my mother kill herself and I didn’t that year and have not?…I ask myself at the farmer’s market when David shows me the black radishes that I use in risotto or when Sarah takes me to the ranch…
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A Love Song for Isaac Fitzgerald
Our dear friend and co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald is moving to New York for his spiffy new job as Buzzfeed Books editor. Dan Weiss (of Morning Coffee fame) and his band the Yellow Dress wrote a song to send Isaac off…
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Rumpus Writers Help Define Modern Literature
Flavorwire’s Jason Diamond has compiled a list of fifty books that defined the past five years of literature. From the universally acclaimed (Wolf Hall) to the controversial (what purpose did i serve in your life), from the literary heavyweights (Tenth of…
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Pain Is Not the Only Truth
Medical museums tend to be short on art and long on the preserved remains of bodies with diseases or deformities. Riva Lehrer, an artist with spina bifida, wants to change that. As she explained in a recent talk titled “Jarred:…
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“Why Are We So Poor?”
That’s how hard it is to see a doctor in Southeast Texas. People take a day off work to drive two hours to a student-run clinic that can only provide basic care. In a brutal portrait of the personal reality…
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Thomas Page McBee Now Managing Editor at PolicyMic
Our Self-Made Man columnist Thomas Page McBee has just become managing editor at political website PolicyMic! We’re overjoyed to see his immense writing talent has found another place to shine. Congrats, Thomas, and we look forward to seeing you “refine…