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Sam Riley
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Religion vs. Pop Culture
“There was a time, religious historians say, that religion was easy to pinpoint because people were defined by their beliefs, practices and traditions of worship. Now, with the sheer number of people and faiths intermingling, believers are consumers of religion.”…
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Internet Theories
The development of the internet has complex cultural roots that divide over the different companies that were participating in its invention. The Apple/Microsoft “personalised, decentralised and playful computing” worked against “IBM’s idea of computing was of an expensive, centralised and…
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Amitav, Interviewed
In the current climate of booming Indian fiction, six-time novelist, Amitav Ghosh, is interviewed on Guernica. His internationalist perspective comes from a background in journalism and his PhD in social anthropology from Oxford, all working in conjunction to uniquely inform…
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Ryan Boudinot’s New Book
Rumpus columnist/ writer, Ryan Boudinot is interviewed by Steve Barker on episode 1 of his podcast “Ordinary Madness,” in which he talks about his new book Blueprints of the Afterlife, which sprawls two different time periods—one being the distant, post-apocalyptic…
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The Impersonal Book Review
Macy Halford writes on the book review, and our inclinations towards immersing ourselves in the opinions of our friends and trusted personalities. But alas, we can’t really know someone through their book recommendations, and this shouldn’t impede our ability to…
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The Largest Intercultural Exchange
A summer spent abroad at an Indian call center sheds light upon the many people who work in business process outsourcing, a competitive field that promises only the equivalent of around $2/hr. Training for the job includes “‘culture training,’ in…
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July’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: It’s Not Too Late!
This month’s Rumpus Book Club selection will indeed satisfy your summer fiction cravings. It’s not too late to sign up to receive this month’s book! How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is Christopher Boucher’s debut novel, published by Melville House…
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Look out for the Altered States of America
Writer Matthew Newton and Brooklyn-based illustrator Mike Reddy have launched a brand new comic series called Altered States of America in which they produce one comic a day for the month of July. Each comic is comprised of a short…
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First Amendment Porn
Kyle Richards, the Midwestern 21 year-old whose bank-robbing tendencies landed him in prison, now finds himself in the middle of a whole different controversy. Richards was denied his right to possess pornographic magazines in prison, which disregards his First Amendment…
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Almost Published
There’s a lot of writing-themed rejection stories around, or at least ones about fleeting publishing fortune. In the spirit of trying and giving up, publishing house frustrations and then reflecting on the whole emotional whirlwind of the publishing experience, there…