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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno

"I’m exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance." Novelist, theorist, historian and blog-girl, Kate Zambreno gives up a meaty, definitive interview.

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Tracking Quakes

I’d lived in California for over six years and still hadn’t experienced a quintessential California quake, still hadn’t come close to what Schopenhauer might call the “dynamic sublime,” the encounter with something powerful enough to destroy you.

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HORN! REVIEWS: The Dream of Doctor Bantam

Kevin Thomas reviews The Dream of Doctor Bantam by Jeanne Thornton, Rumpus Comics style.

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Things Women Have Said to Me in Brothels

I worry about you when I don’t see you for a while.

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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Jami Attenberg

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jami Attenberg about The Middlesteins, the fair portrayal of an overweight protagonist, and food addiction in the face of an unforgiving culture.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Love Poems of David Petraeus

Poetry Wire has learned of the existence of secret love poems by former CIA director David Petraeus.

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HEAVY-HANDED: DATE

"And my date fell asleep during the date..."

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Seven Storms

The Peckman River broke its banks on September 14th, flooding out the center of our town, closing roads and causing days of little local streets lined with heaps of the sad, soaked contents of basements, left out not to dry, but simply to be taken away.

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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH CORIN TUCKER

Corin Tucker, formerly of Sleater-Kinney and Heavens to Betsy and now the leader of the Corin Tucker Band, has been called “a punk-rock heroine” by Rolling Stone. Judging by her…

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FUNNY WOMEN #90: New Ways to Summit Everest

A blind man, Erik Weihenmayer, summited Everest in 2001. But no blues musician named Blind Everest Summiter has ever summited Everest.

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The Last Neighborhood I Loved: Rockaway, Queens

Late summer 2005 and everything’s under water. The news warns us that New York City could be the next New Orleans—flooded subways, ten thousand shattered windows.

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The Rumpus Interview with Nanette Vonnegut

To commemorate what would have been Kurt Vonnegut's 90th birthday, The Rumpus sits down with Nanette Vonnegut for an exclusive interview about her father, his legacy, and his writing...

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