Blogs
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #11: Nancy Lili Gonzalez
None of my furniture matches. Two red bar stools. One green cast iron chair, slowly turning gold. A chestnut drawer thing– I don’t know it’s proper name– it has three drawers, each packed with personal journals, and it has two…
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“Googlism for Steve,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Neil de la Flor
Googlism for Steve Steve is in my closet. Steve is non-industrious and totally asexual. Steve is still alive somewhere in the world.
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John Francisconi on why he deserves an advance copy of Rick Moody’s Four Fingers of Death
I saw Rick Moody read at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT a year or so ago. He read two stories, the first about a New England family, not unlike those that call Stonington their home, out on their…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #43: Unrolling
It’s time to unbind, my innocent little peach. It’s time to evolve.
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Surf Guru Notes, #1
Independence Night I started reading Doug Dorst’s story collection Sunday, July 4th, as fireworks, invisible from my bedroom’s window, broke the night’s silence. Sweating through a s’more-stained tee shirt, I read The Surf Guru‘s first three stories.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #22: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Alex Smith
Alex Smith lives in New York City, where he works as a homepage editor at MSN and as a freelance contributor for the New Yorker. During the interview, Alex drank a Kingfisher, and Rombes an Oberon. Some of Alex’s writing…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #21: Dave Doyle in Conversation with Ronnie Lucero
Ronnie Lucero and I work together at Nelson’s Meats, a small, independently owned meat market in Albuquerque’s South Valley. He is what used to be called a ‘butcher.’ Nowadays they call them ‘meat cutters.’ I sell his handiwork to the…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #28: The Toss-Up Talcum Chronicle
Much ado about LeBron James, Haruki Murakami, free agency, and home.
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #10: Frances M. Lopez
I leaped out of bed and ran to the front door. With a rush of urgency, I pulled the door open and saw nothing. Not a single thing. I could still hear them though; the shrill cries of small children…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #20: Martha Burzynski in Conversation with Michaela Drapes
Michaela Drapes and Shannon Robertson write the irreverent knitting blog Yarneteria. They create bespoke hand knit garments and accessories for discerning gentlemen at Kindling and Tinder where they believe you should “wear your love like heaven.” I recently got to speak…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #9: Alyce Connolly
I live on an intentional community in Middlesex, New York – about an hour south of Rochester, near Canandaigua Lake. While I haven’t been here long, and don’t know how long I’ll stay, I do live here. I sleep in…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #43
I-PHONE 4 ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the I-phone 4.