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Lucas Adams Illustrates a Note from Australia #1
There was a paper American flag taped to the door, and a panel missing by the knob, and so when no one answered, we let ourselves in. Fixed gear bikes lined the hallway and in the living room cigarette smoke…
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Bid in This Lit Auction; Help a Cancer Patient
Jennifer Derilo is like so many in America in that she doesn’t have health insurance. What sets her apart is that she’s in her early thirties yet is battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Many of her friends and former teachers are writers…
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Mind the Gap
From a tiff that begun on Twitter to the calling out of the New York Times Book Review, literary circles are questioning the how gender affects not just authorship, but how it may change the very genre of a given…
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Notable New York, This Week 9/8 – 9/12
This week Stephen Elliott is in town for the paperback release of The Adderall Diaries, Jonathan Franzen celebrates Freedom, Tao Lin brings Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment to BookCourt, Fashion takes you out on the town, Gigantic and Open…
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This Is What We’re Jamming To
We’ve pretty much been listening to Chaka Khan‘s “You Got The Love” on repeat here at Rumpus HQ. Enjoy:
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Strange Parameters
This is an “all Japan” edition of one of my image dives. Most of them are 20th century prints, found around the internet:
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Please watch out for asteroids today guys. These people are in jail for a way cooler reason than you. I’m super rich, I don’t have to wind all these watches myself! Spanish pool photography is pretty cool right? Here are…
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Letters, Characters, and Ten-Degree Shifts: The Rumpus Interview With Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman’s fiction is elusive stuff. His is a body of work that’s equally at home rooting narratives in history or playing textual games with the reader. Even his more historically-based work delves into unexpected societal corners, including post-Cold War…