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Shit Turd and The Purple Light

  • Gwen Goodkin
  • January 11, 2013
With this much self-awareness and meditation, residents such as myself tend to forget—or, rather, concentrate on forgetting—that Encinitas is also a half-marathon’s distance from the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island.
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OG DAD #15: TOT BITES DOG

  • Jerry Stahl
  • January 11, 2013
So I’m standing in front of the fridge, door open, wondering more-or-less what happened to my life, when I suddenly remember I have an eight month old baby in my…
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The Rumpus Book Club Conversation with Manuel Gonzales

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  • January 10, 2013
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Manuel Gonzales about The Miniature Wife, subverting genre, building a believable fictional world, and the invention of paper towels.
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Guns in the Family

  • Sarah Malone
  • January 10, 2013
In my extended family, a generation ago, it was the odd household that didn’t have guns. I think that for my father’s father, a gun served mainly as another mechanical…
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Tramp

  • Kavita Das
  • January 9, 2013
On what would turn out to be the eve of the death of the recent gang rape victim in Delhi, my family and I gathered together to watch a Hindi…
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SPOTLIGHT: The Illustrated Press: Chicago

  • Lucas Adams
  • January 9, 2013
The Illustrated Press: Chicago is a guide to a changing, vibrant city, captured through the writing of Darryl Holliday and the illustrations of Erik Nelson Rodriguez. In stories about subjects minor…
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The Rumpus Interview with Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel

  • Rebecca Rubenstein
  • January 9, 2013
Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel, the co-editors of Recommended Reading, discuss the ins and outs of editing an ambitious literary project.
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HEAVY-HANDED: Voice Commands

  • Chelsea Martin
  • January 9, 2013
"This bus is more crowded than I thought it would be."
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Last Book I Loved + Tumblr Storyboard

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  • January 8, 2013
We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with Tumblr Storyboard!
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Indian River

  • Sonia Saraiya
  • January 8, 2013
In Florida there is an Indian River that flows through a swamp in the northern half of the state. It behaves nothing like a river at all—instead it commingles with…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #167

  • Ted Wilson
  • January 7, 2013
MY MICROWAVE ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my microwave.
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Django Take #1: Good is the Enemy of Great

  • Larry Fahey
  • January 7, 2013
Look, we’re going to have to make a decision about Quentin Tarantino.
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