Blogs
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FUNNY WOMEN #31: Damaris Dice, Stand-In Advice Columnist for Latina Magazine
Dear Damaris, I’ve been with this one hombre for almost two years. I’m actually pregnant with his bebe right now. And I’m wondering; where is the ring?
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A Close Reading By Way of Looking at the First Seven Lines of A Poem and Walt Whitman
Rumpus Poetry Book Club advisory board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi delves into Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, the club’s September selection, by writing the author a letter:
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Weekly Book Club Round-Up
Make sure to check out the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s online discussion with Shane Book, this month’s featured poetry author who brings us Ceiling of Sticks. You can read the transcript, in which book club members ask Book (real name)…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Tao Lin
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Tao Lin about Richard Yates, writing what you want to read, and when it’s okay to steal a book:
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #50: Strange Proposal
Snakes. Hummingbirds. Perhaps a polar bear.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #29: Brian Hansen in Conversation with C.W.
Three years ago I interviewed a number of friends in their mid-twenties, seemingly bright kids with no direction. I lost the digital recordings; here is all that remains from an interview with C.W., 27. We spoke at length in his dad’s kitchen…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Interviews Shane Book
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Shane Book about his poetry collection, Ceiling of Sticks.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #28: Alex Behr in Conversation with “The Fugitive”
Dave “The Fugitive” Jansen, thirty, is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter with Oregon’s Team Quest Fight Club. Our talks took place prior to his World Extreme Cage Fighting (WEC) bout in Las Vegas against Ricardo Lamas on August…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #52
PATTY-CAKE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing patty-cake.
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THE BLURB #19: The Complete Thing
“As those early days blurred into weeks, I watched my newborn son losing weight. How could it be that we did not know how to feed our son? Where was our midwife now? Why, in the middle of this enormous…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #30: The Football Hold
Hey Football Fans, Have you been watching a lot of NFL preseason games lately? Or have you, like me, mostly been watching breastfeeding?
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2010 Amanda Davis Highwire Award Now Open
The memorial award established by McSweeney’s in 2004, the Amanda Davis Highwire Award, is now open to applicants again. The award “is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies Amanda’s personal strengths—warmth,…