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The Rumpus is teaming up with San Francisco nonprofit Quiet Lightning to present a live literary mix tape, and we want you to join us! Submit a piece less than…
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Lauren O'Neal
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Lauren O'Neal is an MFA student at San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in publications like Slate, The New Inquiry, and The Hairpin. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureneoneal.
At Least They’re Reading…
“You has boobie why not me” Such are the pearls of wisdom children bequeath to future readers in the pages of library books. Book Riot has more examples of defacement…
Magical Vanishing Google Results
When Graeme Wood saw an ultra-wealthy college classmate’s name popping up on weird, perfunctory websites, he suspected something was up. After some diligent sleuthing, he discovered he was right—the classmate…
From Computer Geek to Children’s Poet Laureate
Children’s poetry is typically not more than one page or two pages long. And yet, within that one or two pages, kids can get a really strong positive emotional response…
Where App Meets Litmag
Here’s an interesting way to consume new short fiction: Connu, a sort of cross between an app and a litmag, will send you one short story every weekday. The stories…
This Post Is Just To Say
Jezebel has collected several Twitter parodies of William Carlos Williams’s famous poem about plums and a lot of them are pretty funny
An Unconventional Approach to Adapting Gatsby
Assuming Baz Luhrmann’s glitzy adaptation doesn’t stick any better than the ones from 1926, 1949, and 1974, why don’t we have a definitive movie version of The Great Gatsby? At Critics At…
“On Loitering” Shoutout
John Proctor (the Hunger Mountain editor, not the historical figure/Crucible character hanged for witchcraft in 17th-century Salem) has a blog post up about Steven Church’s Rumpus essay “On Loitering.” “…it…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It’s Monday. You’re working hard. Take a moment to stop and smell the weekend Rumpus roundup. First, Yumi Sakugawa takes us to the heart of the forest in a comic…
Protests Spread Throughout Brazil
Turkey isn’t the only country experiencing protests right now; people are also gathering to demonstrate in Brazil. Protests began last week in São Paulo when bus fare was raised from…
Evaluating Books One Pie Chart at A Time
Sometimes exegesis of a literary text just isn’t colorful enough. That’s when you break out the pie charts. Publishers Weekly‘s news blog, PWxyz, has an ongoing feature that slices canonical…
Pen & Ink Seeking Submissions for Book
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, a tattoo might be worth a book. If that sounds like the kind of book you’d like to read, good news: Pen &…