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Rebecca Rubenstein
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“What They Came For Was To Kill Me”
Maybe if I’d participated more when I was a student, I’d have had a well formed outlook about who people really are, and I would have better grasped evil. I wouldn’t have committed as many errors as I have. I…
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Have Pen, Will Art-Blog Redux
Steve Brodner is back! Lest you accuse us of being politically biased, here he is live-blogging the Democratic National Convention for The Nation. Get ready for more hand-drawn satire, after the jump:
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To Give A Girl Her Voice Back
“I lose faith daily. Still. I don’t ever have “writer’s block” (I’m not ever sure I believe in it), but I do let writing go all the time. I now understand that’s just part of my personal process, and I…
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Weekend Essay Roundup
Happy Labor Day, everyone! We hope you’re able to take it easy today. If you’re planning on knocking around the Rumpus for a bit, check out these fantastic essays we posted over the weekend. You won’t regret it: Jake Cline…
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Have Pen, Will Art-Blog
Well this is just excellent: over at The Nation, artist Steve Brodner live-blogged the Republican National Convention—through illustrations. A sneak preview of what you’ll find, after the jump:
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The Writerly Appetite
Did you know Jean-Paul Sartre was obsessed with halva? Or that Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf could have indulged a carb overload with one of their homemade loaves of bread? Over at The Hairpin, Jane Hu puts together a glossary…
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Faces of Addiction Revisited
Back in March, we published a post on Chris Arnade’s “Faces of Addiction” project, which explores the stories of addicts living in New York City through a combination of photography and text. Earlier this month, Arnade wrote a piece on…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It wasn’t a very essay-heavy weekend here at The Rumpus, but we still published all kinds of good stuff. Check it out: Amy Cheney, who has worked as a librarian in a detention center for the past 12 years, recommends…
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The Iliad, Improved
Rumpus head illustrator Jason Novak has another cool panorama over at The Paris Review. Titled “The Iliad, Improved,” Novak puts his own spin on the Greek epic: “I’d originally intended to treat the story without embellishment but just couldn’t allow poor Ajax to…
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Take Their Advice
“Initially, I thought who am I to tell people what to do? Then I realized I wasn’t telling people what to do from the perspective that this is the only opinion and my opinion is the one that matters. I…
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Like Music for A Writer’s Ears
A little over a month ago, our friends at Litquake debuted their newest venture: a podcast. Available as a free, bi-monthly download, Litquake’s Lit Cast features the “best of” in writerly conversations and readings that Litquake holds throughout the year, and…
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The Secret World of Punctuation
“Em-dash is complicated, and she’s not about to let you forget it. It takes three keys to create her, after all. She lives on the blood of baby hyphens, and one time, in a bar, while very drunk, she stole…