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In Which Her Name Does Not Disappear
As I take up the task of reading and rereading these often prophetic poems, much becomes clear to me simply from the visible letters on the page—and yet I sense, too, that I cannot refuse an interpretation of what is…
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Radical Queer Superheroes
At ComicsAlliance, Jon Erik Christianson interviews creator Phil Jimenez on queer representation in comics and Jimenez’s work in changing what radical queer representation means to comics audiences.
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Life as a Whole Foods Cashier
Writers are accustomed to having other jobs and before working at Esquire and Vanity Fair, Lucie Shelly found meaning in the trials and tribulations of being a Whole Foods cashier. Over at Catapult, Shelly writes nostalgically about feeling “needed, productive, and healthy” and her brief fling with a…
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Billy Corgan the Tease
Billy Corgan has really been stirring the pot of Smashing Pumpkins reunion rumors, to the great emotional distress of 90s nostalgists everywhere. A recent video showcased an especially blatant tease: Well last time I said anything about SP news, it turned into…
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Some Kind of Deft Acceleration
Over at the New Yorker, Thomas Beller writes about reading Don DeLillo’s White Noise, with its opening move-in day scene on repeat, and the ways stories change when read again and again—even and especially presidential races and speeches, as with Bill Clinton’s speech…
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Bodies in Space: Teaching after Trauma
Turning onto my street and looking south I feel the ground drop beneath me every time—I turn the corner and the sidewalk falls. I feel invisible then, as if I’ve vaporized.
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Tonight! The New York Premiere of After Adderral
The Rumpus and the Brooklyn Book Festival are excited to present the New York premiere of After Adderall, the new feature film from Stephen Elliott! Be there tonight, Monday September 12, at Videology Bar & Cinema at 7 p.m. for this FREE screening of…
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The Gender of Mothering
At Aeon, Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore writes on the language of “mothering” and the trans parents and activists seeking to define the work of mothering for themselves.
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/12–9/18
Tuesday 9/13: Richard Cohen discusses and signs She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Sara Elizabeth Santana moderates a panel with YA authors Charlotte Huang, Julie Buxbaum, and Adriana Mathers. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Kate Lebo looks back at her Seattle neighborhood, Ballard, in 2007, before gentrification. Recalling details about her neighbors’ homes lead Lebo to reevaluate a particular time in her life, as well as to experience nostalgia for a…
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Revisiting Attica
If you’ve been reading about the nationwide prisoner strike, perhaps pick up Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water. The recently released nonfiction title returns readers to the Attica Prison riots. It, “reminds one generation, and informs others,” that New York state’s handling…
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Shining Sea by Anne Korkeakivi
Emily Morgan reviews Shining Sea by Anne Korkeakivi today in Rumpus Books.