Blogs
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Self Made Man #23: Serenity Prayer
In this new New York, I’m living inside the Serenity Prayer. I say this at brunch and people laugh but I mean it.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Poetry Shutdown Begins – Poets and Critics Fail to Agree
A flurry of last-minute phone calls, philippics, tweets, and Facebook posts by poets and critics late last night failed to break a bitter standoff over the latest poetry-is-dead attacks, setting in motion the first poetry shutdown in the history of…
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Life Cycle by Dena Rash Guzman
Ryan Werner reviews Dena Rash Guzman’s Life Cycle today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Let’s Read About Sex
The New York Times asked novelists, memoirists, and poets for their thoughts on writing and reading about sex.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I recently discovered a fascinating cookbook: Rufus Estes’ Good Things To Eat. Written in 1911, this cookbook is the first ever written by an African-American chef. Born a slave, Estes triumphed over unimaginable odds to become one of Chicago’s finest…
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FUNNY WOMEN #108: Terms and Conditions for Watching Your Stuff
The affidavit below governs my watching of your stuff and sets forth the conditions for my protection from persecution, retaliation, etcetera
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Swinging Modern Sounds #49: Divided by a Common Tongue
Rick Moody interviews Belle & Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson about his solo album, misinterpreting songs, and the band’s rough early days.
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Letter To The Editor
From last week’s Weekly Rumpus. Each week we try to feature at least one Letter To The Editor.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Readers of literary fiction learn empathy and better understand social cues, a study reveals in the NYTimes. Tom Clancy, dead at 66. Buzz Feed seeking a Books Editor. “No haters.” Josh Mohr is the ugliest tranny at the Uptown. Jonathan…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Something Wrong with Her by Cris Mazza
Mazza wants to raise the issue prominently, but not to resolve it. In a way, she seeks to create for us the discomfort, the lack of resolution she feels in her own life.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Lists of the Past
Elizabeth Byrne explains why THE LISTS OF THE PAST by Julie Hayden is the last book she loved.
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Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling
Anne Champion reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Palimpsest today in Rumpus Poetry.