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The Pot Thrower: Notes on the Death of a Brother

  • Karen R. Tolchin
  • November 7, 2013
If Charlie had finally lost his focus after all these years, well, no wonder. I’d have lost it after about fifteen minutes wrestling with CF. We had to help him find his resolve again and get back his health, not stand there crying.
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Fantasy Football For Poets: Week Ten

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • November 7, 2013
That day, Jonathan was the last one, and this time, the ritual made the young second-year player snap. He threw his cafeteria tray to the ground, left team facilities, and has never returned..
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The Rumpus Interview with Matt de la Peña

  • Lilliam Rivera
  • November 6, 2013
Novelist Matt de la Peña chats about his love for multicultural literature, the revision process, and how his 2010 book, Mexican WhiteBoy, came to be banned from schools.
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The Wild Thing With People Feet Was My Favorite

  • Paul Crenshaw
  • November 6, 2013
The one with people feet, I thought, had once been human, but had changed. He grew wild. Everyone grew wild at times...
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

  • Sean Carman
  • November 5, 2013
Writer Laura van den Berg talks about her newest collection, The Isle of Youth, being drawn to locations "with a potential for magic and strangeness," and how to create a continuous dream for the reader.
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The 52/52 Project: Detours off the Cul-de-sac

  • Sherry Stanfa-Stanley
  • November 5, 2013
When I chose belly dancing classes as the first of my fifty-two new experiences in the year I would turn fifty-two, I knew looking sexy was a long shot.
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The Rumpus Review of All Is Lost

  • Larry Fahey
  • November 4, 2013
From the start, All Is Lost understands what makes the survival genre great: an uncompromising dedication to what happens on the screen and a refusal to linger over why it happens or what it means.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #206

  • Ted Wilson
  • November 4, 2013
INSTAGRAM ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Instagram.
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All Over Coffee #657 Collaboration with Susan Steinberg

  • Paul Madonna
  • November 4, 2013
She opened my hand; she flattened my fingers; she traced a line; and I thought of something; and I thought something else.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Through the Throat

  • Ethel Rohan
  • November 3, 2013
"This past July, I stood over my father’s hospital bed and contemplated suffocating him with his pillow..."
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The Rumpus Interview with Eric Lundgren

  • Lincoln Michel
  • November 1, 2013
Novelist Eric Lundgren talks about paying homage to your influences, inducing literary vertigo, the perfect details in film noir, and the Mall of America.
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The Last Book I Loved: nineties by Lucy Ives

  • Jackie Clark
  • November 1, 2013
Our parents showed up to retrieve us. They wanted to know why we would do such a thing. My friend and I looked at each other and just shrugged our shoulders.
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