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Steve Almond
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The Rumpus Interview with Chloe Caldwell
I first saw Chloe Caldwell do her thing a year ago. She read an essay about an orgy she’d participated in and how much she’d enjoyed the orgy, and the particular moments she’d enjoyed,
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THE WEEK IN GREED #7: The Money Shot
When I was five years old, my grandfather Irving Rosenthal, who lived in the Bronx, came out to California to visit us. One morning I asked him for a dollar.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like the Fallen World
It’s no coincidence that the one man willing to lie about his savagery as an adolescent is the one running for president.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #5: The Willy Loman Vote
A few weeks ago I was in an airport and I did that dumb thing I so often do in airports, which is to retrieve a stray section of USA Today out of a fancy airport trashcan.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #4: Risk-Free Ratfucking
Dirty tricks work in politics because it is human nature to see the worst of ourselves in others, particularly in those we feel are more powerful than we are.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #3: What We Remember of the Old Country
Let’s say you work at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells, just down the road from Palm Springs. You do maintenance stuff: irrigation, pool filters, plumbing.
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THE WEEK IN GREED #2: Soprano Defeats Romney!
A quick pop quiz for the upwardly mobile couch potato: what theme unites virtually all our marquee cable television shows?
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THE WEEK IN GREED #1: The Quality of Owning
Because of flaws in my character that I am helpless to correct, I spent some minutes last week watching a clip on the BDM[1] of folks cheering the eventual Republican nominee for President, Willard Mitt Romney. Romney had just won…
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Occupy Your Conscience: A Rumpus Exaltation
When I was four or five years old, my mom and dad called me and my brothers into the living room.
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The Decade of Magical Thinking
A Rumpus Lamentation on What We Lost Say you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From up there, you’d see that approximately 150,000 earthlings died that…
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Jennifer Close
Keep your eye on this one, I said. As so often happens when I say this, Jennifer is now more famous than I am.