Columns
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with David Rivard
David Rivard discusses his new collection Standoff, writing as both a public and private act, the interiority of reading, and Pokémon GO.
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Weekly Geekery
Phillip K. Dick’s holy spirits—or hallucinations? Lovecraftian scientific horror in Stranger Things. Shakespeare + math = … Narcissists doth make psychiatrists of us all. As women of color win science fiction awards, ATTACK OF THE RABID PUPPIES!
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to @ Them
Trolls have come a long way since their days guarding bridges. Over at Electric Literature, Andrew Ervin compares today’s Internet vermin to their bestial forbears.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Istanbul is suffering from a shortage of bookstores. Barnes & Noble has ousted CEO Ronald Boire. A crane collapsed in front of a Reno bookstore. No people—or books—were injured.
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A Good Mom, a Progressive Mom, a Cool Mom
At Catapult, Rachel Klein shares her experience as a mother of a transitioning child: I was worried, like most people are at their core, about myself. I was not being a “good mom,” a “progressive mom,” a “cool mom”; I…
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I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris by Elizabeth Hall
Allie Rowbottom reviews I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris by Elizabeth Hall today in Rumpus Books.
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Trump Tribute Torched
At Hyperallergic, Benjamin Sutton gives us the latest in “Crimes of the Art.” It’s a tough world out there, especially for Trump tributes.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The best thing about today is looking at midcentury hotels of New Jersey. Here is how Facebook is targeting you. What is life but a hidden codex inside a different codex? Let’s all go on a conspiracy theorist cruise! Here…
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Spotlight: “Mouth” by Stacy Elaine Dacheux
“Mouth” explores the closeness of bodies—how we open up, connect, and fail to convey.
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Punk Magic
Over at Hazlitt, Tobias Carroll writes about the intersection of punk and magic in various fictional works, from The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell to the Hellblazer comics and Buffy the Vampire Slayer—a surprisingly varied history of what might, at first,…
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Just Kidding
Heads up, Harry Potter fans: the staff over at VICE confirm that J.K. Rowling will be coming out with three more short stories about Hogwarts. The stories will provide background to some of the secondary characters in the Harry Potter series:…
