Columns
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Painting a Week
“I’d wanted to be a writer for so long the dream was part of me, like an organ, an extra heart…Only one thing was missing. I wasn’t writing.”
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Lit-Link Round-up
12 Amazing Staircases around the world. LitReactor is rocking it on craft essays. Their most recent newsletter groups together 10 of the best. Steve Almond’s open letter to his daughter, about love. Sandie Friedman’s essay on “the unlived life” at The…
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Links I Like
I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about the Zimmerman verdict. I recommend Roxane Gay’s How America Profiled Trayvon Martin and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Karen Bender’s What Great Writing Can Teach Us About Trayvon Martin. Read bell hooks Was Right.…
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O Holy Insurgency by Mary Biddinger
Kristina Marie Darling reviews Mary Biddinger’s O Holy Insurgency today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Notable Los Angeles: 7/20-7/26
Saturday 7/20: Robert Rotstein will be signing copies of Corrupt Practices (A Parker Stern Novel). 12 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. Unkindest Cut reading series with readers Justin Becker, Kate Coltun & Dave Horwitz. 6 p.m. at The Pop Hop. Sunday…
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Saturday Rumpus Comic: Tear
Find out what happens when you discover a literal tear in the fabric of time
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The 3rd Annual New York Poetry Festival Is Coming
The Poetry Society of New York’s 3rd Annual New York Poetry Festival is coming up on July 27 and 28 on Governors Island. The festival has become a highlight of the New York lit-o-sphere in the summer. A short ferry…
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Down with Marriage?
Meghan Murphy at xoJane thinks that marriage is a tool of patriarchy. To her, rejecting marriage is the feminist choice. Marriage has been an institution within which women have suffered abuse, rape, murder and forced reproduction. It’s an institution that…
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Stories About Women in Prison
Orange Is the New Black, the new Netflix series based on the memoir of Rumpus interviewee Piper Kerman, has piqued viewers’ interest in the stories of women in prison. Whose stories get told, and how do we interpret them? A…
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Why Baseball Movies Usually Strike Out
From Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” to Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding, there’s something about baseball stories that captures our imaginations. Have baseball movies done the same? Maybe, but with much less artistic integrity, argues Kevin Courrier in a…
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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Michael Joseph
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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Introducing Lit Tease, A Preview/Fundraiser for Lit Crawl
Still hyped up from Beast Crawl and counting down the days until San Francisco’s Lit Crawl in October? Then you’ll want a ticket to Lit Tease, LitQuake’s preview/fundraiser event for the highlight of their annual festival, happening tonight. Tickets are…