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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Self-Portrait with Parts Missing and/or Smeared
A first day means there was a never-day.
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A Poem That Sounds Like How the World Is
In an interview at Lit Hub, Tommy Pico speaks candidly about the forces that drive his poetic process, the ways in which we police one another’s poetry with our preconceived notions of the genre, and the subsequent importance of writing in…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #2: In a World Gone Tilt-a-Whirl
Society is falling apart, the daily news seems to say. Living in interesting times, it is all too easy to fear that our work is meaningless.
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Upcoming Album from Dinosaur Jr.
Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, Dinosaur Jr.’s eleventh album, is out August 5 from Jagjaguwar. In the meantime the album’s second track has been released, and it’s grade-A stuff according to Henry Rollins (although that’s not a huge surprise). Listen to “Goin Down” and…
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See You at The Rumpus Film Festival Tomorrow!
The first-ever Rumpus LO-FI Film Festival is happening tomorrow! If you haven’t already purchased tickets, what are you waiting for?! A one-day event to be held on July 30 in Los Angeles, the festival will screen three films, in addition to the world premiere of…
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Readers Report: Too Much, Too Soon
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Too Much, Too Soon.”
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Books on a Plane
A German airline has teamed up with the German book trade for a campaign called Buch an Bord (Book on Board) that allows each passenger to travel with an extra kg of weight just for books. Hear that, American airlines?
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Notable Chicago: 7/29–8/4
Friday 7/29: City Lit Books welcomes Paul Liukart as he presents his new collection Animal Heart. Other readers include Gary D. Wilson, Leesa Cross-Smith, and Steve Karas. 6:30 p.m., free. Cory Martin reads from her new memoir Love Sick, a…
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HORN! REVIEWS: My Brilliant Friend
Since I’m nowhere near the first, let me be only the most recent to entreat you to read the story of Lenú…
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It Was an Honor Just to Be Nominated
We would all love to pretend that we’re above the euphoric rush of gaining approval. But winning feels good, and writing that truth in its fullness is a key step to understanding it. For the Guardian, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his…
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Welcome to the World of Wakanda
Last week, the exciting news came out that Roxane Gay will be joining Ta-Nehisi Coates as a co-writer on the second Black Panther series, World of Wakanda. The New York Times looks at how the series will center women both on the…