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Book Club Signup
Thank you for subscribing to The Rumpus Book Club and/or The Rumpus Poetry Club. If anything is wrong or you have any questions please email isaac AT therumpus.net. When you receive your book each month it will also include the…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #8: Kim Locke
My name is Kim Locke and I live in the suburban commuter metropolis of Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
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Horn! reviews Citrus County
Rumpus Book Club member Kevin Thomas took us up on our offer to review last month’s book club selection, Citrus County. But he decided to do his review as a comic. He thinks he might do one of these every…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #19: Karen Duffin in Conversation with Laura Stevens
Laura Stevens has great hair. The best hair in the room, 94.3% of the time. It makes me jealous. She is the only non-adopted child of her parents’ six children. She does change management consulting for a living… I still…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #42: No is Golden
But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn’t mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #18: Paula Whyman in Conversation with Tim Guthrie
Paula: Tim Guthrie is an internationally exhibited and award-winning multimedia artist. He is also the best movie-dialogue-reciter I have ever met, which endeared him to me immediately. We met at an artist colony and bonded over late-night poker and blackjack…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #17: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Joseph Sullivan
Joseph Sullivan works as a user experience designer for a large trade association in Chicago. “A user experience designer,” he said, “used to be called an information architect. Someone recently defined the job as ‘building structures,’ and that’s about right.…
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“Of All the Dead People I Know,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Karyna McGlynn
Of All the Dead People I Know I can’t imagine any of them hanging out. They are in arcadia with their laptops but there are no outlets, and they are playing a video game in which they can never move…
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FUNNY WOMEN #28: So You Have Second-Hand Embarrassment Syndrome
First, do not fret, this is a very common affliction, affecting millions of people worldwide. Second Hand Embarrassment Syndrome (SHES) is defined as feeling other people’s embarrassment as acutely as your own. This makes reality television, specifically talent competitions, extremely hard…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #16: Elissa Nelson in Conversation with Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus
Elissa Nelson interviewed her mother, Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus, who has been a freelance journalist since before Elissa was born, working for a variety of magazines and newspapers including People, Newsweek, and USA Today.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews John Brandon
The Rumpus Book Club talks with John Brandon about Citrus County, his second novel from McSweeney’s.
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #7: Charlene Keeler
I live in Huntington Beach, which is in Orange County, California. We are famous for surf contests and skinheads, but I have only seen the latter, usually at 7-11. Skinheads like 7-11 coffee.