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Lauren O’Neal
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Ghost Horse Wins Award
Congratulations to Rumpus reviewer Thomas H. McNeely for winning the 9th Annual Gival Press Novel Award! The winning novel, Ghost Horse, tells “the story of a boy’s journey to escape an abusive relationship with his father and to discover the truth about his…
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RIP Lou Reed
Lou Reed, who changed the face of rock music both with the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, passed away yesterday at the age of 71. We trust you know where to find his music, but you may also…
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“He Put Her Out in the Cold”
When she aims the pistol at the doorman, he grabs her wrist and snatches the gun, then she starts to scream, “Baby, what have I done?” For The Paris Review, Aaron Gilbreath writes about jazz, heroin and love gone wrong. Read…
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Good Work from the Museum of Bad Art
Travel blog Atlas Obscura has a post up on Slate about Massachusetts’s Museum of Bad Art, whose collection of paintings “displays a glaring gap between the artist’s sincerity and skill level.” It may seem cruel at first, but founders Scott…
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Read Emily Dickinson’s Poetry in Her Own Handwriting
Do you ever jot down lines of poetry on the back of an envelope? So did Emily Dickinson, as you might see if you look through the Emily Dickinson Archive. Launched yesterday, the site hosts “high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving…
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Let’s Face It: Oscar Wilde Would Have Ruled Twitter
“@MargaretAtwood @JoyceCarolOates @nycnovel @NathanEnglander @Shteyngart and I are fine with Twitter,” Salman Rushdie recently declared to the anti-social-media Jonathan Franzen. If famous authors of the past had been fine with Twitter, what would they have tweeted? Bookish has some ideas.
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Tom Barbash Reading 10/30
Tom Barbash, Rumpus interviewee and author of a book that Stephen Elliott told Daily Rumpus subscribers made him cry, will be reading from his latest book Stay Up with Me in San Jose on October 30. If you’re in the Bay…
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Homophobia in Hip-Hop
Rumpus pal W. Kamau Bell talked to prominent hip-hop video-blogger Jay Smooth in an interview spotlighted over at Racialicious. The two discuss homophobia in hip-hop and the eminent wisdom of black queer icons like James Baldwin, Bayard Rustin, and Audre…
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Who Pays Writers?
Which publications pay writers? How do writers make enough money to survive? Scratch, a new online magazine edited by Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin, aims to find out. Their inaugural issue is free and includes an interview with Jonathan Franzen,…
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Safety First
Back in 2012, we published an essay by Lauren Becker called “Safety” about her experience being stalked. It was beautifully written and one of the scariest things you’ll ever read. Now, almost a year later, she’s written a followup piece…