Columns
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Shovelman: “Moonshine”
Dude plays a shovel like a guitar. He also played our most recent Rumpus in San Francisco. Read our writeup of him here.
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English Authors Offended By the Present Tense
England: land of quibblers. Some of the nation’s top writers are at the throat of the present tense. Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, said, “I just don’t read present-tense novels any more. It’s a silly affectation,…
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The Pale King
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King “will be published on tax day, April 15, and feature cover art by Wallace’s widow, the painter Karen Green.”
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Two Threads
Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems is best appreciated not for its message or its drama, but for its expert way at guiding a reader through the writer’s lively imagination.
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Elissa Bassist Recounts The Rumpus
In “VIDA Counts The Rumpus” two female writers from VIDA: Women in Literary Arts “crunch the numbers and let us know how The Rumpus is doing in the gender disparity department.” The verdict: we’re kinda sexist, but not as sexist as…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am in love with you hump-backed Spanish dinosaur. Everyone is into Golden Age Sci-Fi illustration. Hemingway as 21st century comedy writer is ok too. Some thoughts on politics (or the lack there of) in architectural design. Mainly though, let…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter
Rumpus Book Club member and artist extraordinaire Kevin Thomas reviews Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter by Simon Van Booy the only way he knows how, by drawing a comic: …more
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Led Burroughs
William S. Burroughs’ 1975 article on Zeppelin, “Rock Magic: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, And a search for the elusive Stairway to Heaven,” is available online. Why are you still here? (via LargeHeartedBoy)