Columns
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Rumpus Women Respond to VIDA
Earlier today Susan Steinberg and Cate Marvin from VIDA: Women in Literary Arts crunched some numbers and let Rumpus readers know how the site is doing in the gender disparity department. Moments ago Rumpus Women’s Literature and Humor Editor Elissa…
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FUNNY WOMEN #31: Damaris Dice, Stand-In Advice Columnist for Latina Magazine
Dear Damaris, I’ve been with this one hombre for almost two years. I’m actually pregnant with his bebe right now. And I’m wondering; where is the ring?
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Tilting at Woodcuts
Illustrations by Enric C. Ricart for The Ingenious Don Quixote of La Mancha (1933):
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Two Musicians. One Rumpus.
Last night in San Francisco John Craigie rocked the Monthly Rumpus. You can read our interview with Craigie here. Isaac “Shovelman” Frankle also moved The Make-Out Room, find our writeup of him here.
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Rushdie for Religious Freedom
Salman Rushdie has come out in support of the (unnecessarily) controversial Islamic cultural center that will hopefully be built two blocks from Ground Zero. (via TheBookBench)
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Fourth Down and Longing
A memoir of life as a disappointed fan becomes a meditation on “isolation and the things we do to overcome our loneliness… emptiness, and not knowing how to fill it.”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What do you think you’re doing? The best Astronomy pictures of the year (hurray). Oh hello, glass instruments. Aha! Space Lawyer is pretty much the best title of anything ever. (thanks AJAMS.) Farewell Liberace Museum.
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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.
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Lucas Adams Illustrates a Note from Australia #2
In Sydney, everyone runs. Actually everyone. We didn’t walk a block that first day without seeing someone running.
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More Twitter-Mysteries Revealed
Earlier today we noted that The Awl had an interview with the previously anonymous person behind the Twitter feed @BPGlobalPR. Well now GalleyCat has unmasked the man behind @EvilWylie and @EmperorFranzen (yep, turns out it was the same dude). (via…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 9/13-9/19
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, The Peanut Butter Plan, Rebecca Solnit at the JCCSF, and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside! Monday 9/13: It’s the second Monday of the month, which can only mean one thing: The Monthly Rumpus! The September…