Blogs
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EMERGENCY DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column: What’s a Girl to Do About Glenn Beck?
As for the fate of the country, my money is on roving diesel mobs. But then, my money has always been on roving diesel mobs.
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The Last Book I Loved: Outer Dark
Outer Dark left me out of breath; a literary asthma attack propelled by a respiratory one.
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FUNNY WOMEN #7: In Retrospect, Dating That Speed Freak Wasn’t All That Bad, Comparatively
God, he was smart! He had a mind like a hummingbird, he had read every book there was to read, his tongue was sharp, he was funnier than anyone else at the party.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #17: Higher Love
Recently, I was given an assignment by Rumpus film critic and friend Ryan Boudinot to write about one of those pieces of music that is so execrable, so thoroughly gangrenous, that it’s nearly impossible to figure out why anyone would…
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The Last Book I Loved: Women
Read between Faulkner’s Collected Short Stories and the wonderful Martin Millar’s Lonely Werewolf Girl, it was time for prose that slapped me in the face and welcomed me with a beer. Charles Bukowski’s Henry Chinaski character is starting to emerge…
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The Last Book I Loved: Berlin
I’m going to say something a reviewer should never say about a series still in development: Berlin is a great book. We’re only up to book two [Berlin Book One: City Of Stones and Berlin Book Two: City Of Smoke]…
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The Last Book I Loved: An African in Greenland
I grabbed An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie from the fabulous New York travel bookstore, Idlewild, after my event with Stephen Elliott. I’d heard about the book for years as an incredible read for anybody who adores anthropology adventure…
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Rumpus Original Fiction: “Bobcat” by Rebecca Lee
The Rumpus welcomes Madras Press and proudly offers an excerpt from “Bobcat,” by Rebecca Lee.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #9
THE BIBLE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Bible.
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The Last Book I Loved: The Romantic Dogs
I always blanch when someone tells me—and always so assuredly, it seems—“ I just don’t really like poetry.” It’s more people, more otherwise avid readers than I would like to think.
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FUNNY WOMEN #6: Finally! A Job That Requires My Skill Set
Please only apply if you are a proven insomniac who would not think of getting into an office before noon.
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The Blurb #12: On Disturbance
The deciders of the Publishers Weekly Best 10 list “ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz.” Which is kind of brilliant in a way. Because everyone knows if you ignore things, you can maybe make those things go…