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The Rumpus Interview with Alix Lambert

  • Susan Lerner
  • December 17, 2014
Director Alix Lambert talks about her documentary, Mentor, small-town conformity, and bullying in the digital age.
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FUNNY WOMEN #124: Our Representatives Are Currently Helping Other Customers

  • Lindsay King-Miller
  • December 16, 2014
Your wait time is approximately twelvefinity.
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Give the Gift of The Rumpus This Holiday Season!

  • The Rumpus
  • December 16, 2014
There's still time to give the gift of The Rumpus this holiday season!
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #263

  • Ted Wilson
  • December 15, 2014
SANTACON ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing SantaCon.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #60: On Mentorship

  • Rick Moody
  • December 15, 2014
In an empirically-preoccupied world, mentorship appears to be unscientific, impossible to quantify, and perhaps even sentimental.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Get Rejected

  • Lisa Carver
  • December 14, 2014
In this excerpt from her new book How Not to Write, Lisa Carver explains why it's good to get rejected.
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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: Stain

  • Sharon Harrigan
  • December 13, 2014
It’s hard to remember why I was silent. Maybe, like some of the women only now reporting they were raped by Bill Cosby decades ago, I was afraid I wouldn’t be believed.
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The Last Book I Loved: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

  • Shannon Slocum
  • December 12, 2014
Bernadette Fox is awesome, but she is also kind of losing it, and I get it.
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Sound & Vision: Scott Crawford

  • Allyson McCabe
  • December 12, 2014
Director and punk rock enthusiast Scott Crawford talks with Allyson McCabe about his film Salad Days, his punk fanzine Metrozine, Kickstarter, and DIY music culture.
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Dispatch #2

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • December 11, 2014
“You want your cup to overflow,” he said. “My cup is causing a flood.”
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Eventually, We All Become Members of the Dead Dad Club

  • Erika Price
  • December 11, 2014
Dads are a funny thing. So many of us have strained relationships with them.
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Paper Trumpets #14: Shadow Made of Water

  • Kevin Sampsell
  • December 10, 2014
Sometimes I don't realize I'm doing something clever until later.
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