Blogs
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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.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #15: Ru Freeman in Conversation with Lorraine Adams
Lorraine Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and critic whose work centers on the encounter between the American enterprise and those caught in violent conflict in the Islamic world. Her most recent novel is The Room and the Chair.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #27: Stars, Stripes, Studded Bras
I love what Landon Donovan told CBS News about the goal he scored at the end of the U.S. – Algeria match last Wednesday in the World Cup. “When that ball came to me, the net looked like the ocean,”…
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The Surf Guru
Did you catch “The Candidate In Bloom,” a short story from Doug Dorst’s forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru, that we posted yesterday? Interestingly enough, The Surf Guru is our Rumpus Book Club pick for July. Why not read the story,…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #6: Shanna Mahin
I live two hours and a lifetime away from Los Angeles. I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about that. My mother’s an actress, I told the kids on the playground, or my father is a producer, both marginally true…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #14: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Jeska Dzwigalski
This interview with Jessica (Jeska) Dzwigalski was conducted at 11:00am PST via GMail chat on June 19.
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The Candidate In Bloom
A short story from Doug Dorst’s forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru, our Rumpus Book Club pick for July.
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #5: Patrick Maier
I live on Bomarc Lane, which is located in Satellite Beach on Florida’s Space Coast and is about two miles away from Patrick Air Force Base. The street is named after the Bomarc missile, the only surface to air missile…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #13: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian
In Rochester, New York, my best friend Brian returns from a mission to fix an errant Xerox brand copier, the company that employs him as a technician. I sit in the offices of the L Magazine in DUMBO, as an…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #4: Betsy Birdsall
I live on 1.5 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains in a house that was built in the 1920s out of local stone. Most of the original buildings in the area are made out of the same stone, from the…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #12: Joen Madonna in Conversation with Cherry Crawley (Her Dead Mother)
This is an interview with my mom. I was hyper-critical of her when she was alive and never gave her enough credit. She was an only child, raised in DC by older over-bearing parents. She married the first man she…