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Down, Out, and “Paved With Anguish”
At the Guardian, Tim Cooke investigates why writers’ experiences with homelessness and destitution fascinates readers: So what is the attraction of being down and out? For some, the prospect of real, hard-hitting subject matter has proved irresistible, while for others the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey remember that time we almost blew up the world over a solar flare? “Fun” fact: the site of Trump’s call to assassinate Hillary yesterday was also home to a white supremacist coup. What a time to be alive! Totalitarian architecture…
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The Rumpus Interview with Annie DeWitt
Annie DeWitt discusses her debut novel, White Nights in Split Town City, the 90s, and the brutality of nature.
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August in the Rumpus Book Clubs
We’re excited to announce August’s selections for the Rumpus Book Club and Poetry Book Club! In the Book Club, we’ll be reading Michael Helm’s After James, a novel “in three parts, each gesturing toward a type of genre fiction: the…
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Get Up and Go
Are you filled with seasonal summer ennui? Well, here’s a list that has something for everyone to inspire your get-up-and-go. No excuses.
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Fiction’s Rise of Female Friendships
Readers are shifting focus from outdated gender expectations and conceptions of identity, and as a result, complex, non-compartmentalized female friendships are blooming in fiction. Books about these friendships are spaces for female writers and readers to explore the complexity of…
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The Stranger Things Mixtape
If you haven’t been watching Stranger Things, you’re probably being chased by a monster in “the upside down.” The show’s soundtrack is a mashup of synth-laden soundscape themes and ’80s throwbacks that’ll have Gen Xers’ hearts yearning for that simpler, cellphone-free era. And…
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The Next Bukowski of Tattooing?
Jonathan Shaw is a writer and tattoo artist who has inked just about everybody. He’s at the top of his game. Check out this podcast and find out more.
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The Read Along: Jessa Crispin
Jessa Crispin on reading abroad, watching ships chug through the Bosporus, and watching Outlander.
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Next Letter for Kids: Cylin Busby
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Cylin Busby! Cylin writes to us about her childhood farm and all her barn cats—wow, did she have a lot of cats! And they were the best mousers in the world! Subscribe by August 11 and find…
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Weekly Geekery
Nabokov’s epilepsy, heart problems, and unpublished letters. A dictionary for the fleshy bits of brain that store our words. Ephemerality meets Instagram. The secret sauce behind NBC’s Olympics telecast. Your designated BFF might not even know your name.
