Columns
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THE NEXT LETTER IN THE MAIL:
Lisa Jane PerskyThe next Letter in the Mail, going out this Friday, is from Lisa Jane Persky. Lisa Jane is a writer, photographer, actress and editor. Her fiction, journalism and photography has appeared in periodicals ranging from Bomb to MOJO to The Los Angeles Times. She made her…
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Albums of Our Lives: Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town
Elizabeth and I took our first road trip a few months into our relationship.
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Peter Orner Reading Thursday at Booksmith
If you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss Rumpus columnist Peter Orner‘s reading at Booksmith this Thursday to celebrate the paperback release of his novel Love and Shame and Love. It will include a conversation with fellow author (and occasional…
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“Teenage Girls Aren’t Pining for Roman Polanski”
After Chris Brown’s inventively profane online spat with comedian Jenny Johnson and his subsequent departure from Twitter, the public is left to wonder once again just how Brown’s actions fit into the ways our society views race, gender, and abuse.…
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Police Log Comics: The Book!
Rumpus contributor Owen Cook’s Police Log Comics will be coming out soon in book form. The book is a 34 page black and white, edition of 200 with a hand colored cover. Here’s the trailer which features strobe and is not recommended for those with a…
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Capote Fans’ Prayers Answered
Buried treasure has been unearthed at the New York Public Library: six unpublished pages of Truman Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers. They’re from a chapter called “Yachts and Things,” and you can read them in this month’s Vanity Fair. If…
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Dwarf by Tiffanie DiDonato
While born with diastrophic displaysia, a rare form of dwarfism causing short stature, joint deformities, and very short extremities, Tiffanie does not allow the world to define her.
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Method Actors
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” Easy enough for E. B. White to say, but how do you schedule out time in a day? Brain Pickings has…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s just send all of the people to mars. In the meantime, let’s talk about life in Antarctic lakes. 16th Century German explosives. Your nose gets hot when you lie. Today my favorite things are Pelican book covers.
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The ‘We’ of Single Motherhood
Taking this leap of faith alone has drawn a network around me in numbers stronger than if I had conceived a child inside a traditional relationship and family. In the big and small moments of this new kind of passage,…
