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Lauren O’Neal
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We hope your St. Patrick’s Day was free of snakes and blooming with four-leaf clovers. If you didn’t garnish your Guinness with Rumpus weekend features, you can catch up right now! There’s the usual highly unusual Yumi Sakugawa comic, as…
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Coauthor a Book with Charles Dickens, Sort of
Google is nixing their RSS reader in July, but at least we still have this fun demo of real-time collaborative Google docs. “See what it’s like to collaborate with famous storytellers,” says the blurb on the side of the page.…
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Really, Really, Really Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Moruga Scorpion, a squat, reddish-orange chile with a perky tail, like a stinger, is over 300 times hotter than a jalapeño. It is one of a new class of chiles called “Superhots” that are, as the name implies, way,…
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Go See These Girls Right Now!
BookRiot recently selected Girls Write Now (which we’ve blogged about before) as their charity partner for 2013. The organization, which helps underserved teenage girls in New York develop their writing and prepare for college, will receive 2% of BookRiot’s revenue…
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Making VIDA Count
We reached out to several of the worst offenders to ask where they thought they had gone wrong…but got very little in the way of responses. So we decided, instead, to reach out to the editors of the publications that…
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Association of Writing and Writer’s Photographs
If Roxane Gay’s recap didn’t fully satisfy your AWP thirst, get quenched with these snazzy photos of our event with McSweeney’s at 826 Boston headquarters!
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Helping Harper High
Previously, we blogged about Harper High School, where twenty-nine students were shot in a single school year, eight of whom died—not in what we think of as a “school shooting,” but in an equally deadly and frightening series of individual…
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The Hunt for the Loneliest Whale
There’s a whale somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, an increasingly famous whale, who sings at 52 hertz instead of the usual 15–20 hertz. Judging by the recordings we have, he seems to be a male, and he seems to be…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Sides of AWP
What exactly is the purpose of AWP? To meet new or online-only writer friends? To interact with your favorite authors? To advance your own writing career with networking maneuvers and information absorbed in panel discussions? For the Rumpus’s Steve Almond, it’s…
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826 Valencia’s Bookmaking Seminar Approaches
That uneasiness even tech-savvy readers feel about e-books—what about the smell of binding glue? the sound of turning pages?—demonstrates how even if we accept digital readers, we still love the heft and texture of an old-fashioned paper book. If you’re…
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Beyond the “Hang Loose” Sign
Sign languages are just as rich as spoken languages, with their own grammar, slang, and regional peculiarities. American Sign Language is distinct from French and Kenyan and Peruvian Sign Languages—and, as was recently discovered, from Hawaiian Sign Language. Linda Lambrecht,…
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What It Was Like at AWP
If you weren’t lucky enough to make it to AWP this year, never fear. Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay has a summary of her time in Boston that will make you feel like you were really there. A preview: This…