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Lauren O’Neal
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Get Loud with Quiet Lightning
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 eight minutes long by Wednesday, June 19 for the chance to…
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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 of library property. Ironically, though they’re written by children, most…
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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 had used an exorbitantly priced reputation-management service to throw Google…
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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 that encourages them to want to read another poem. Time…
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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 are brand new and written by established authors and their…
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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
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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 Large, Amanda Shubert argues that the closest we’ve come is Six…
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“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 sometimes gives me a great sense of reclamation,” he says…
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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 about a dead spider king. Then, Liz Prato starts coughing…
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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 three reais to R$3.20 (about $1.50 to $1.60), and have…
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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 works of fiction into easily understandable visual representations of data.…
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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 & Ink, the blog about tattoos and the stories behind them…