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A Brief History of Swans

  • Tara Isabella Burton
  • May 23, 2013
We frighten away boyfriends, lovers, strangers, and we do not mind, because we are together: together, we are glorious.
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Sam Benjamin

  • David Henry Sterry
  • May 23, 2013
Porn was always stronger than me, and it still is.
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  • Lauren Eyler
  • May 22, 2013
0) The beginning of all this, maybe. This woman who insists I could have loved anybody. We saw the Atlantic from Normandy. We saw the Pacific from San Francisco. This…
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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Wright

  • Diane Mehta
  • May 22, 2013
Susan Wright, activist, writer, and founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, sits down to discuss the recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders updates, and what they mean for the kink community.
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Deep Throat #4: On Being and Unbeing a Singer

  • Hanne Blank
  • May 22, 2013
It is not a coincidence that among the synonyms for “practice” is “ritual,” and for “ritual,” “practice.” When you do a thing over and over—even if it is only so…
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Spotlight: Boco Watches the Sea

  • Liam Golden
  • May 21, 2013
I asked Boco, "What was the coast guard like?" He said it was lonely.
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FUNNY WOMEN #101: Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis for N. Drew

  • Susan Schorn
  • May 21, 2013
The client, C. Drew, an attorney, requested an investigation into the extraordinarily high number of violent incidents involving his teenage daughter, N.
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Beyond Americana

  • Zach Schonfeld
  • May 21, 2013
These are memories, packaged, dusted, shrink-wrapped, and worn. How strange are they for the man to whom they belonged?
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The Rumpus Interview with Julianna Barwick

  • Erin Lyndal Martin
  • May 20, 2013
With her haunting voice looped in a wordless glossolalia over pianos, keyboards, and other instruments, Julianna Barwick makes music like no other artist working today.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #183

  • Ted Wilson
  • May 20, 2013
GRAIN OF SAND #1 ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a grain of sand.
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So Raped

  • Megan Foley
  • May 20, 2013
No one said anything. No one asked questions. As if an unspoken contractual blindness bound us.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Susan Steinberg

  • Michele Filgate
  • May 19, 2013
The author of the stunning collection Spectacle explores connections between visual art and the written word, experimental writing, Virginia Woolf, cowardice, and more.
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