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Want to be a Rumpus Intern?
The Rumpus is looking to fill internship positions! We are looking for two interns in the San Francisco area and two interns in the Los Angeles area: Responsibilities for LA interns: writing blog posts, social media tasks, Letters in the Mail…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Today we honor the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His impact on the world is sort of impossible to overstate. As one African-American man who grew up before the Civil Rights movement put it, “Dr. King ended the…
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New Readers Report Theme: Resolutions
After reading all your splendid short pieces on the theme “Magic” we’re eager for another Rumpus Readers Report! This month’s theme? Resolutions. (It is January, after all.) Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT yahoo.com. We’ll choose the…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Cynthia Romanowski
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Cynthia Romanowski. Here’s an excerpt: It’s November which means you’ve been stable on medication for exactly five years, sixty months, though it’s not something that people really celebrate. It’s not like remission from…
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The Happy Baby kickstarter rewards update
The Rumpus is trying to raise $15,000 to finish our first movie, an adaptation of Stephen Elliott’s novel Happy Baby. The Web Promo Award: Susan Orlean, The Rumpus and Stephen Elliott and others will tweet your link and/or twitter handle…
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Woes Of The True Policeman
Page 86 of Woes Of The True Policeman by Roberto Bolano: The root of all my ills, thought Amalfitano sometimes, is my admiration for Jews, homosexuals, and revolutionaries (true revolutionaries, the romantics and the dangerous madmen, not the apparatchiks of…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Liam Golden
The next Letter in the Mail, going out Friday, January 3, is from Liam Golden! Liam has illustrated many Rumpus pieces, and his comic Boco Watches the Sea was featured in a Rumpus comics spotlight in 2013. You can see more of his…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Julie Babcock
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Julie Babcock. Here’s an excerpt: For four months, Elle came to my apartment with a host of delightful ideas. Elle the cat burglar in Rome. Elle the Parisian schoolteacher. Elle the Colorado sheepherder. Elle…
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Celebrate With The Yellow Dress Tonight!
If you live in San Francisco, you should be sure to head out to the Rickshaw Stop tonight to celebrate the release of a brand new album by Rumpus BFFs The Yellow Dress (featuring Dan Weiss of Morning Coffee fame)!…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Kevin Sampsell
The next Letter in the Mail, going out Friday, January 3, is from Kevin Sampsell! Kevin is the publisher of the small press Future Tense Books, the editor of anthologies like Portland Noir, and the author of several books, most recently the…
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Holiday Round-up
Two-sentence holiday fiction from Salon is fun and includes many Rumpus folks! You’ll find short fiction by Peter Orner, Matthew Specktor, Cecil Castellucci, Kelly Luce, Elliott Holt, and more! He was never sentimental about these things, being a Jew. Still, Wilshire Boulevard, with…
