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Albums of Our Lives: Moxy Früvous’s Bargainville

  • Lauren Eggert-Crowe
  • October 25, 2013
What did I turn to when I needed to channel my frustration with this corporatized Republican state against which I could only kick my small angry feet? The music of Gen-Xers from another country.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Dissident Gardens

  • Kevin Thomas
  • October 25, 2013
Tracing eight decades of the American left...
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Week 8

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • October 24, 2013
No one knew it was a torn ACL, which means that Reggie’s incredible 189-game streak is over, his season is over, and perhaps even, at his age, his thirteen-year career is over.
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The Rumpus Interview with Dylan Ryan

  • David Henry Sterry
  • October 24, 2013
Porn star, writer, performance artist, social worker, and activist Dylan Ryan sheds light on her positive experiences as a sex worker and advocates for the empowerment of women in the porn industry.
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Everybody Cut Loose

  • Dale Bridges
  • October 23, 2013
No matter which of these stories I told, I would always end with the line about how my father was so strict he wouldn’t let me watch movies, listen to rock music, or go to dances. Nine times out of ten, the girl’s eyes would widen and she would say something like, “Oh my God! Your life was just like Footloose!”
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The Rumpus Interview with Monica Drake

  • Roxane Gay
  • October 23, 2013
Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl and now The Stud Book, discusses the physicality of characters' bodies, the complicated issues women face while aging, and the crucial nature of writing communities.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #51: Free For One and All

  • Rick Moody
  • October 22, 2013
Dean Wareham is a great writer, and possessed of a strikingly astringent and dry-eyed view of things without pity or self-pity or undue kindness, and what follows, I trust, will give abundant evidence of this.
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The Car that Brought You Here Still Runs

  • Naomi Kimbell
  • October 22, 2013
After taking medications and following a treatment plan, the hospitalizations had gradually replaced family vacations, and I only seemed to be getting worse. “Is it possible you’re wrong about me?” I asked. “Is it possible this whole thing is a mistake”?
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #204

  • Ted Wilson
  • October 21, 2013
MY WELCOME MAT ★★★★★ (0 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my welcome mat.
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The Rumpus Interview with John Hodgman

  • Greg Hunter
  • October 21, 2013
Comedian, writer, and performer John Hodgman sits down with The Rumpus to chat about channeling Ayn Rand, his Secret Society shows, giving himself permission to open up, and being a product of the Internet.
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Saturday Rumpus Comic: White Noise

  • Yumi Sakugawa
  • October 19, 2013
I can't understand anything you are saying.
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Make it a Ted Wilson Halloween

  • Ted Wilson
  • October 18, 2013
Not available in any store is the year’s most exciting costume: the Ted Wilson! Take this mask, pair it with a sweater, dress shirt, and khakis, and you’ll be the…
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