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The Rumpus Interview With Paul Gilmartin

  • Rachel Newcombe
  • November 12, 2014
Paul Gilmartin discusses his podcast, The Mental Illness Happy Hour, how he found his own way into therapy, and the power of sharing shame.
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FUNNY WOMEN #123: Cover Letter Template

  • Kristy Eldredge
  • November 11, 2014
I have been responsible for spearheading many cover letters to companies like yours, which stand out from the competition because the openings you have seem as if they might pay a livable salary, to me.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Let me tell you” by Miller Williams

  • Brian Spears
  • November 11, 2014
They don’t usually realize that every line, every word of a poem, is there because the poet consciously chose that word instead of some other one.
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #258

  • Ted Wilson
  • November 10, 2014
BALLOONS ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing balloons.
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Sound & Vision: Brian McTear

  • Allyson McCabe
  • November 10, 2014
Music producer Brian McTear talks with Allyson McCabe about building a studio centered on relationships with musicians, his non-profit Weathervane, and the end of the DIY era.
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Dog Lab

  • Jean Kim
  • November 9, 2014
One day, I saw on the schedule Canine Cardiophysiology Lab. By then I had already carved up human carcasses in anatomy class . . . . Memories of mellifluous verses about springtime and the stark insights of Shakespearian tragedies had long since faded. I went through the motions without rest, a zombie memorizing body parts.
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First In Line at the Peepshow

  • John Dermot Woods
  • November 8, 2014
They both chose the same small dark-haired woman to watch, and, so as not to seem overly eager or perverse, they also both insisted that the other go first.
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The Rumpus Review of Birdman

  • Kenny Ng
  • November 7, 2014
Birdman boils down to the same essential question of how we spend our days, and how those days add up to our years. How we make our story matter, and whether legacy is the point of existence, in how we measure the worth of our lives.
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The Rumpus Interview with Maxwell Neely-Cohen

  • Gabe Durham
  • November 7, 2014
Maxwell Neely-Cohen discusses smart teens, furious parents, the apocalypse, and how our screens change how we see the world.
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Spotlight: Wyatt Sparks’s MOTOR CYCLE

  • Wyatt Sparks
  • November 6, 2014
MOTOR CYCLE is a series of text placed over heavily altered photographs, which combine the phrases and tone from the 1979 series Mobile Suit Gundam with material on the bōsōzoku, Japan's fabulously styled motor cycle street gangs.
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  • Peter Orner
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The Lonely Voice #29: Feels like the World, On a Story by Richard Bausch

  • Peter Orner
  • November 6, 2014
Richard Bausch can take your head off with a plain sentence. He’s direct, no frills, no pirouettes. A writer who says what he means and not a word more.
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I Thought I Could Just Be a Passenger

  • Rachel Vorona Cote
  • November 5, 2014
I have spent my twenties texturing this city with memory; I have made it a vessel for my pleasures and my pain.
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