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“The Rumpus has the best sex work writing online.”
“I get that’s a pretty big statement, especially coming from a website that also publishes writing about sex work, but it’s true, and proper due should be given when deserved.” CarnalNation gives our sex work essays some serious love. (Thanks…
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Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #4: Arthur Russell
There’s a restaurant in the Mission district of San Francisco at which, at the point it closed earlier this year, I’d eaten at with every girl I’d ever been involved with.
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Return Them to Their Sources Uninterpreted
Each conceit, each stanza, each line in Lovely, Raspberry sparkles with such wonderful ambiguity of thought that is, paradoxically, a type of clarity; through Belz’s absurdism, aspects of the human condition are illumined in unique, resonant fashion.
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Are the Poor More Altruistic than the Rich?
A star-studded lineup of billionaires including George Lucas and Bill Gates recently pledged to donate half of their fortunes to charity. But researchers at UC Berkeley are claiming that the poor and lower classes are inherently more charitable than their…
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The Rumpus Interview With Neela Vaswani
Neela Vaswani is author of the award-winning short story collection Where the Long Grass Bends (2004). An education activist in India and the U.S., she lives in New York and is the founder of the Storylines Project with the New…
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Chats With Random Men #1: Emre
This week we kick off a new blog where Brooklyn-based singer/writer Alina Simone teaches us how to use the Internet for its penultimate purpose: chatting with random men. Beginning with Emre…
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Morning Coffee
Vintage Tokyo subway manners posters (yes)! This is a literary website sometimes, so we should probably link to these newly redesigned F Scott Fitzgerald covers. I’m not going to lie to you, I think these urban-vertical-farming design ideas are pretty…
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Sorry, We’re Clothed
The Lusty Lady was a theatre. There was a live stage show, an old fashion peep show, and one-on-one sex shows in the Private Pleasures booth. There were video booths where you could watch porn like in an old arcade.