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Fixing Facebook
“Online privacy expectations are evolving, but whether Facebook likes it or not, a lot of us want the privacy settings we signed up for when we joined the service. Here’s how to use Facebook’s new privacy controls to regain your…
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White Torture
“After I recanted my false confession, my main interrogator essentially told me he knew I was not a spy. My captors may have wanted to use my false confession to intimidate Iranians advocating better relations with the West. They may…
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A Biographer of Violence
“Means’s fictional worlds are ominous, pre-apocalyptic, the hiss after a match is struck but before it ignites. A typical hillside is, ‘silent and gritty, with condoms curled like snakeskins in the weeds, and the ash craters, and the used needles,…
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A Morning Coffee Map Amendment
In yesterday’s Morning Coffee I linked to this write-up of the 10 maps that changed the world. Rumpus reader’s, evidently quite the antiquarian map enthusiasts, proceeded to email me expressing various degrees of excitement, disgust, outrage, ambivalence; and pointed out…
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Morning Coffee
The Rumpus is not above posting stories about astronauts pooping. The Sea of Galilee is out of fish. Celebrate Memorial Day right, by buying me a woolly rhinoceros skeleton. Frank Gehry built this crazy thing for you, the least you…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #25: The Angelic Name
In 1994, David Foster Wallace published an essay about the difficult-to-pin-down pleasure of watching great athletes during their most intense moments of competition. The essay, “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,” looks simple on the surface: it is “unaccompanied,” by…
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“I meet 35 (exact number) people a year.”
“I went to the Tin House party last night in the city, and it was one of the best publishing-related parties I have been to in a long time.” A fun little write-up of Tuesday’s Tin House party in Brooklyn…
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The Duke of Discomfort
David Means’s fictional worlds are ominous, pre-apocalyptic, the hiss after a match is struck but before it ignites.
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Franzen Fiction
“If Patty hadn’t been an atheist, she might have thanked the good Lord for school athletic programs, because they basically saved her life and gave her a chance to realize herself as a person.” The New Yorker has posted new…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #38: Romantic Love Is Not a Competitive Sport
Some of those women your boyfriend used to fuck have nicer asses than you.
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“The reader is always doing you a favor.”
The Daily Rumpus is an email Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes and sends out anywhere from two to five times a week. Most of them are not posted online, but subscribing is free. Just send an email here. This is…
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Lists Mocking Lists
“7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism” McSweeney’s re-titles some literary classics in the name of boosting web traffic.