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We’ll Call Them Contact Zones

  • Lisa Wells
  • February 22, 2012
Based in research of museum design, and memorialization, Slot’s narrator moves inside public landmarks dedicated to various disasters—9/11, slavery, Hiroshima, the Holocaust— and explores ways memorialization acts on conscience and…
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Dan Savage Interview

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 21, 2012
Mother Jones converses with Dan Savage about his long-term vision for the “It Gets Better” campaign and his new MTV series. Savage also dishes on whether reading about “freaky stuff”…
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  • Peter Orner
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LONELY VOICE #17: In Love Again and Doomed (Part Two of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)

  • Peter Orner
  • February 21, 2012
My lung was fair at least out there, here where I’ve been for the last fortnight. I’ve not been able to see the doctor. But it can’t be so bad…
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Thoughts on DFW

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 21, 2012
Rumpus contributor Daniel Roberts has two pieces on David Foster Wallace in honor of what would have been his 50th birthday. This Berfois essay examines The Marriage Plot‘s Leonard Bankhead…
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Esther Stories, Off the Page

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 21, 2012
Rumpus columnist and Book Club author Peter Orner’s Esther Stories will be presented by Word for Word, “San Francisco’s premiere producer of short stories on stage.” The event will take…
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Writers and Families

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 21, 2012
“This idea of the older generation as strange, insistent shadows moving closer and closer to substance as time went on, the idea that I was writing, pushing myself to work,…
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DFW

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • February 21, 2012
Today is David Foster Wallace’s birthday. He would have been 50 years old.
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In the Manner of Water or Light

  • A Poem I Love
  • February 20, 2012
So many of the voices in Ayiti are trapped in situations that are too difficult to bear, and yet they must.
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I Kid You Not the Rush Is Good

  • Heather Hartley
  • February 17, 2012
Be ready for thresholds, light and dark—in both natural and fluorescent hues—and for getting high.
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Notes from Treasure Island!!!

  • Elissa Bassist
  • February 17, 2012
Author Sara Levine read a few chapters from her novel Treasure Island!!! (a Rumpus Book Club selection) at WORD bookstore in Brooklyn and said wonderfully interesting things during the Q &…
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MariNaomi Reading Tonight

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 16, 2012
Rumpus artist MariNaomi is headlining the Matcha Sensuality event at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. She’ll read from her graphic memoir Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume Ages 0-22 at…
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A Preposterous Proposal, But No, Not Quite

  • Andrea Scrima
  • February 16, 2012
Helen DeWitt’s satirical novel Lightning Rods turns the quotidian American workplace into a cloaked prostitution ring and makes us wonder if it isn’t already one.
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