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Gonville
An actor’s memoir of growing up with a dangerous father channels Augusten Burroughs, Sean Wilsey, et. al.—maybe a bit too closely.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #8: Sarah Legg in Conversation with Bruce Legg
This is an interview with Bruce, fifty-nine years old, a former shipping department employee, and general music enthusiast. Bruce is usually quiet, but always up to talk about his first love. He is also my dad.
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Morning Coffee
Why the internet exists reasons #3,657-58: vintage NASA art and jellyfish photography. Oh hey perpetual storytelling apparatus, how are you? (Warning: foreign language link) I can’t decide if I hate or love this twitter inspired street art. A scientific look…
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Tortured Confessions: The Rumpus Interview with Justine Sharrock
In her book Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, journalist Justine Sharrock takes a close look at low-ranking soldiers who engaged in acts of torture.
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #2
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Welcome to the continuing Rumpus Book Club Blog, where a Rumpus contributor reads the book of the month and regularly blogs about his…
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Woods’ At Echo Lake
Recalling those famed sandwiches of chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker goodness enjoyed around a crackling campfire, aptly named folkie lo-fi musicians Woods bring back your campfire days.
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The New Yorker’s One Over 40
A special Rumpus lamentation with possible added pep talk. *** So last week the New Yorker published their once-a-decade Fiction Issue, in which they printed eight stories, along with their list of 20 Writers Under 40.
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Voyage Fantastique vol.3 (The Minimum Lethal Dose)
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967). Volume 3: L’immunologie. Les cancers.
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Notable New York, This Week 6/14 – 6/20
This week in New York Stephen Colbert celebrates Ulysses, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are King and Queen of the Mermaid Parade, Heidi Julavits interviews Aimee Bender at Symphony Space, Gordon Lish MCs the NY Tyrant reading, Ann Beattie reads…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #34
Fuck it, Doug. I’m sick of renting and this place is super affordable. Well if this whole “used to be an Indian burial ground” thing bums you out so much, then I guess I won’t be seeing you at my…