Columns
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Mavis Gallant and Monsieur Le Verbe
Alors, Mademoiselle, have you noticed how we French, unlike our Anglo-Saxon friends, use all the muscles in our face and mouth when speaking? Raise your upper lip toward your nose. When performed correctly, this action will cause the nostrils to…
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Down with Women’s Stories, Up with Stories about Women
I am not tired of stories about women’s lives, stories that tell me something real about how a particular woman thinks or works or loves. But I am tired of “women’s stories,” stories that are supposed to be about a…
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Surviving a For-Profit School
There were warning signs. Red flags. The school was located in a series of strip malls along a highway in a shitty part of town, but close enough to a nice part to appear, on paper, like a good place…
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2013 PEN Award Shortlists
PEN America has released the shortlists for its 2013 prizes, which you can check out here. There are ten prizes in categories ranging from debut fiction to literary science writing to biography (for which Rumpus columnist Peter Orner was a…
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The Rumpus Interview with Pam Houston
Pam Houston discusses the art of travel, breaking down the barriers between fiction and memoir, biking across Canada, and continuing to write on the road—even after being bitten by a possibly-rabid dog while camping in the Gobi Desert.
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Search For a Velvet-Lined Cape by Marjorie Manwaring
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Marjorie Manwaring’s Search for a Velvet-Lined Cape today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Big day for dinosaur news part 1: Yes, the t-rex was a predator. Big day for dinosaur news part 2: Hello there weird new horn faced dino. Difference and Repetition is your Tumblr for the week. PayPal has some weird…
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Deep Throat #6: On Being and Unbeing a Singer
The gulf between the place where I sang Mozart and Debussy with people my parents’ age and the place where I went to public school and tried to make friends with kids my own was vast.
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Beauty and the Beastly Po-Biz, Part 2
You can read Part 1 here. Speaking of clothes, one standout opportunity for the heralded “blockage” or disruption of capital that seems to have been missed occurred at the site of capitalism’s convergence: the White House. Kenneth Goldsmith was invited…
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Last City I Loved:…Fresno?
At Poets & Writers, Michael Medrano shows some love for a California city usually forgotten by the West Coast literary establishment: Fresno. Fresno’s Tower District, he writes, …lies just east of the infamous Highway 99, another valley literary icon mentioned by Philip…
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FUNNY WOMEN #104: Providing Birth Control to American Girl Dolls
At American Girl®, our celebration of girls doesn’t end at puberty–and now neither does our product line!
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These Words All Have Neoflects Coming Off Them
Did you know that, like aglets for the end of a shoelace or tittle for the dot atop an i, there’s a whole delightful host of terms for the visual cues used in comic strips? Invented chiefly by cartoonist Mort Walker in a…