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Sam Riley
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Odd-Jobs of the Past
Summer is the most appropriate time to reminisce about those “character-building” odd-jobs of yesteryear. Sometimes perusing a book’s dust-jacket, you learn that your literary idol endured some menial labor or surprising occupation and it confirms their humanity. In the spirit…
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Undocumented Prison Deaths
“..currently, there isn’t a single federal law requiring state-run jails and prisons to report detainee deaths, or what caused them. Not one.” After the Death in Custody Act expired back in 2006, there has been no accountability for the reporting…
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Wallstreet and Lit Life
What better way to celebrate humanity than acknowledging unexpected cultural overlaps? Wallstreet and the literary life have got some overlaps worthy of discussion. Because sometimes, during tough financial times, consulting a Thomas Wolfe novel for insight is the most helpful…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Groupon can be tracked throughout history—way back to the ancient Greeks. Also, they apply to all forms of graphs. Real vampires with heat sensors! This is like minute math for adults. Canadian English just got REAL. And officially recognized by…
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Ian Huebert and The Golden Spoke
Ian Huebert, the San Francisco-based artist who goes way back with the Rumpus (also the mastermind behind the Rumpus logo), has a beautiful poster series out, featured on bus shelters throughout San Francisco. One of the many commuters who depend…
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Why Zombies?
Today’s zombies are not what they once were—being one of the walking dead comes with a whole slew of creepier characteristics. Thus being one of the most popular creepy fiction phenomena around, zombies have been somewhat reinvented throughout the years.…
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48 Hours of Magazine-Making, Illustrated
48 hours of grueling magazine production never looked so pretty. Here is the making of Issue 2 of Longshot Magazine, as illustrated by our columnist Wendy MacNaughton.
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Rombes’ Blogs for Filmmaker Magazine
Rumpus columnist Nick Rombes’ shot-by-shot breakdown of Blue Velvet has officially begun. The breakdown is happening in a trifecta of weekly blog posts for Filmmaker Magazine, 47-second increments of the film detailed in cinematic analysis. Scott Macaulay introduces the project,…
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A Podcast to Assuage Today’s Difficult Musical Decisions
The Best Radio You’ve Never Heard podcast is the perfect thing to listen to you when you want to relinquish all playlist control and introduce something new into your sonic repertoire. And the playlists are themed, free and all available…
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Tom Lutz on the Missing Generation of Journalists
Tom Lutz’s recent essay for the LA Review of Books discusses the missing generation of journalists, the layoffs that have forced out some of the greatest book reviewers from their staff positions on newspaper mastheads and the diminishing of the…
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“We Love You From the Start” (Today!)
The Rumpus and the Bay Citizen are excited to announce our next monthly event, “We Love You From the Start.” August’s event features a slew of brilliant writers: Melissa Febos, Brendan Constantine, Steve Fainaru, and Steve Almond. Nato Green is…
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Plotlines in the Digital Age
Nowadays technology is not just changing how we interact with books and movies, but it has changed the plotlines themselves. It has changed the way fictional characters interact with each other, the believability of the plot—it’s destabilizing the fictional landscape.…