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Serena Candelaria
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Writers and Their Day Jobs
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread…” In an interview with The Atlantic, poet Amy Woolard discusses her double life as a writer…
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New Comic on Life in SF
Rumpus contributor Jon Adams has a new comic Just Add Money in Bold Italic! His work on Bold Italic focuses on life in San Francisco! Read his other comic Ah, San Francisco, which illustrates a current dilemma.
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Learning How to Write
“The Apparent Author,” Meriç Algün Ringborg’s latest exhibition in Istanbul’s Gallery NON, presents a sound installation of an author talking about “her artistic goals, ambitions, and potentials,” as Rumpus contributor Kaya Genc writes in The Paris Review. Genc makes a…
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A Writer’s Best Friend
As the saying has it, a dog is a man’s best friend, but dogs are not always the pets of choice among the literary greats. Ernest Hemingway had his six-toed cats, Flannery O’Connor had her peacocks, and Vladimir Nabokov had…
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On Faulkner and Cocktails
There are two Faulkners, and each of these Faulkners is embodied by one of the author’s two favorite drinks, as Robert Moor posits in a recent Paris Review article. The julep is High Faulknerian. Taking in the dense, lush language in…
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Goodbye to All That: A Reading
On Wednesday, October 23rd, long-time Rumpus contributor and editor of the recent collection Goodbye to All that: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, Sari Botton will host an event in Brooklyn featuring reading and stories by contributors to the…
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Pynchon’s Paranoiac Vision
In 1966, when The Crying of Lot 49 was published, Pynchon’s “all-ecompassing paranoiac vision of history” seemed “so kooky” and “far-fetched.” Fast forward to 2013, and Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge, a novel focused on events before, during, and after 9/11 “becomes…
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“A Writer’s Writer”
John Williams’ Stoner has unexpectedly become a bestseller in Europe, but the work remains largely unknown in its own country. In “The Greatest American Novel You’ve Never Heard Of,” New Yorker contributor Tim Kreider explores the reasons why Williams has been…
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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
“Your Patriarchy Is the Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things: Scenes from a Feminist Youth,” is a McSweeney’s piece that begins with a mother giving birth–asking her doctor not to impose gendered imperatives on her as he tells her to squeeze–and…
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Life As We Know It
In her recent piece on Salon, “Am I an alcoholic?” writer Kathleen Volk Miller describes the way her mother and her sister lost themselves in drink, contrasting this with her own decision to be in control of her booze, not the…
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A Farewell to the Profane
“Profanity shocks nobody anymore,” writes Brad Leithauser in a recent essay for The New Yorker, and still, there remain “unusable words,” words that cannot be used because they might also mean their opposites, or because they are overused, or when…
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The gift of not responding
There’s a big secret Twitter doesn’t want you to know, as Choire Sicha writes in a recent article on The Awl. “You don’t have to respond to anyone on Twitter. Ever.” Sicha lists a number of reasons one might choose…