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Laryssa Wirstiuk: The Last Book I Loved (Poetry Edition), The Stranger Manual
In “Miss Peach: The College Years,” a five-section poem from Catie Rosemurgy’s latest collection The Stranger Manual (Graywolf Press, 2010), the young, female speaker confesses: “No one knows I am the flower, the bee, the wind, the rain, the dirt: all…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #39: The Baby Bird
Dear Sugar, WTF, WTF, WTF? I’m asking this question as it applies to everything every day. Best, WTF Dear WTF, My father’s father made me jack him off when I was three and four and five. I wasn’t any good…
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Rumpus Original Art By Ian Huebert
Today’s hilarious send-up of teaching in the modern age by Daniel Stolar, “RE: Online Course Evaluations,” features art by Rumpus contributor Ian Huebert. Be sure not to miss Ian’s fantastic comic, Pornographic Barn Owl, and to check out more of his…
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Disconnect
“Among the thronged walking paths, mobbed booths, and snaking lines for book signings at this year’s Book Expo America, it was hard to reconcile the show’s booming attendance with the seemingly endless reports of an industry on life support.” Brian…
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“Liu Xiaobo committed no crime.”
“On Christmas Day last year, Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his part in creating Charter 08, a document calling for greater freedoms and democratic reforms in China. On Tuesday, the international human rights…
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We’ll Make Great Pets
In Don LePan’s dystopian novel, the animals are all extinct and the weaker people have taken their place in the food chain.
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“I’m gonna meet you on the astral plane”
The UFO-inspired works of Uruguayan artist Alexandro Garcia (born 1970), courtesy of Galerie Christian Berst:
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Writing About Writers
“Increasingly, writing about writers/writing feels too self-referential, too meta, too much. There are so many occupations we could explore through our writing—fireman, astronaut, waitress, cowboy, ballet dancer, whatever—that have a lot of creative potential.” Do you cringe when you start…
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One Day Only Special
Online lit mag Word Riot has just announced an interesting stunt. Between now and next Monday, writers who have been published in Word Riot, 3:AM Magazine, Anderbo, Collagist, decomP, Dogplotz, Electric Lit, Eyeshot, Hobart, Identity Theory, JMWW, Keyhole, Laminantion Colony,…
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Morning Coffee
The best we can do with the materials at hand. We here are about 80 percent sure the world is ending, but we just can’t stop looking at this sink hole. Just a buncha dudes pretending they’re going to Mars.…
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RE: Online Course Evaluations
“What great dialogues we’ve had on e-mail, cell phone, text messages, Facebook, and Twitter—uv taut me tns!! ☺”
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The Lesson Is Never Try
“Recently it struck me that the list of books I’ve started and not finished has grown quite formidable. I ask myself what this ‘means,’ if it reflects some kind of moral devolution. It’s interesting how there does seem to be…