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Swinging Modern Sounds #53: The Distribution Problem, Part Three

I thought, in my ongoing attempt to describe how digital music is changing the way we consume music, that it would be good to speak to a representative young person about her music listening habits.

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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Matthew Zapruder

In the second episode of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with Matthew Zapruder for a chat about his latest collection, Sun Bear, his dual role as poet and musician, and close encounters with Grace Paley.

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Sun Bear

yesterday at the Oakland zoo / I was walking alone for a moment / past the enclosure holding the sun bear / also known as beruang madu...

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Dispatch from the Carnival #3: Bloodlust

What does not occur to me at the moment of this bloodlust, will not until much later, is that I am actively seeking the violence. I want to witness the worst.

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The Last Poem I Loved: Richard Siken’s “Scheherazade”

Tell me, Richard, that I, too, will never get used to this.

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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon

Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon, the editors of ZYZZYVA, sit down to discuss the literary journal's 100th issue, thriving as a print publication in the digital age, and being a staple of San Francisco's cultural community.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #231

FUR ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing fur.

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Spotlight: A.K. Summers’s Pregnant Butch

Writer and illustrator A.K. Summers's new graphic memoir, Pregnant Butch, looks at the increasingly common but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Wake the Goddamn World

On a darkened street in Prague, an older man assaults a younger woman, while an American teacher--safe in her apartment above--watches from the window. More than a decade later, Megan Stielstra remembers, interrogating accountability, time and language.

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WHERE I WRITE #25: The Wild Pendulum

Here I am, seven years later, a “full-time writer.” I spend about half my time locked up in my apartment in the West End of Providence, Rhode Island, hunched over my laptop.

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The Rumpus Review of Nymphomaniac Vol. II

If predictability was insight, if the familiar was shocking, if everyone hadn’t already watched a billion hours of Internet porn, Nymphomaniac might be the movie Lars von Trier thought he was making.

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Sound & Vision: Tony Mangurian

In this second installment, Allyson McCabe sits down with Tony Mangurian, a gifted and versatile engineer, producer, composer, and musician who's worked with everyone from Willie Nelson to U2, Luscious Jackson to Devendra Banhart.

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