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Lauren O’Neal
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“A Humiliated Boy’s Idea of Manhood”
What do Raymond Chandler’s protagonists have in common with hip-hop artists? At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates investigates: “I’ve had the privilege of reading The Big Sleep, between bouts of dabbling with the new Kendrick Lamar. Both works are technically impressive. And both…
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Peter Orner Reading Thursday at Booksmith
If you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss Rumpus columnist Peter Orner‘s reading at Booksmith this Thursday to celebrate the paperback release of his novel Love and Shame and Love. It will include a conversation with fellow author (and occasional…
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“Teenage Girls Aren’t Pining for Roman Polanski”
After Chris Brown’s inventively profane online spat with comedian Jenny Johnson and his subsequent departure from Twitter, the public is left to wonder once again just how Brown’s actions fit into the ways our society views race, gender, and abuse.…
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Capote Fans’ Prayers Answered
Buried treasure has been unearthed at the New York Public Library: six unpublished pages of Truman Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers. They’re from a chapter called “Yachts and Things,” and you can read them in this month’s Vanity Fair. If…
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Birdlings and Other Young Poets
Via Longreads, a Michigan Quarterly Review essay by Miah Arnold about teaching creative writing to children hospitalized with (often terminal) cancer. Reading it feels like having your heart thrown off a skyscraper, but it’s so good you have to read…
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Some Queer Writers of Color
This dovetails nicely with Roxane Gay’s post about writers of color: a list of writers of color who are also queer. “I thought, I’m sure I can come up with 50 books by LGBT people of color,” writes the post’s author.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Our posting schedule was a little light over the holiday weekend, but Michelle Dean’s ode to used books is well worth a read: My copy of Anne of Green Gables, the one my dad read to me, is worn and…
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Glad We Got That One Sorted Out
Is humankind basically good or basically evil? Or does it vary too widely from person to person to generalize across the whole species? Well, some scientists took a look, and it turns out we’re good. So we can all stop…
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New T. S. Eliot Papers To Be Revealed
If you enjoyed reading about T. S. Eliot’s first wife, Vivienne, in Rumpus interviewee Kate Zambreno’s book Heroines, you might be interested to know that Eliot’s second wife, Valerie, recently passed away at the age of 86. What does that…
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An American In Jerusalem
Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick took a year off to live with her family in Israel and work on a book about the US Supreme Court. Then the current conflict started. She writes about her experience in a piece titled “I Didn’t…
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Chased By Bees – m4w – 45
Every Sunday, James the Stanton of Gnartoons posts an episode of Missed Connection Comix at San Francisco blog Uptown Almanac. The strip takes missed connection posts from Craigslist—the guy who fancied a girl at his CPR class, the woman looking…
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The Freestyle Cortex
A sudden burst of improvisational creativity may feel almost supernatural in origin, but there’s a biological basis for it, say researchers. How did they study it? By scanning the brains of freestyling rappers, of course. They found that rapping memorized…