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Readers Report: The Gamble

  • Susan Clements
  • July 6, 2012
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The Gamble.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Mark and Jay Duplass

  • Niki Cruz
  • July 6, 2012
Since premiering at Sundance in 2002 with This is John, Mark and Jay Duplass have acquired a reputation for making emotional family-driven films on the budget of a shoestring, while also finding success with studio backed films like Cyrus and Jeff, Who Lives At Home.
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  • Brian Schwartz
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A FAN’S NOTES, THE RUMPUS SPORTS COLUMN #43: Mohawk Mama

  • Brian Schwartz
  • July 5, 2012
Perhaps you’ve seen the photograph of Italian striker Mario Balotelli embracing his mother after scoring two emphatic goals in Italy’s recent 2-1 Euro semifinal victory
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeffrey Brown

  • Jory John
  • July 5, 2012
Comic aficionados have been aware of Jeffrey Brown’s talents since the publication of Clumsy in 2002, a raw and honest graphic novel about a promising, but ultimately doomed, long-distance relationship.
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Black Wings: Love, Loss and Life as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Iraq

  • Jamy Bond
  • July 4, 2012
It was a cool, blue morning in Baghdad. I stood in the rubble of a bombed out building, a shell of what it had once been.
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FUNNY WOMEN #82: Apply Your Feelings of Professional Inadequacy to a Really Adorable Birthday Cake

  • Amy Butcher
  • July 3, 2012
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Truth in Nonfiction: A Testimonial

  • Dylan Nice
  • July 3, 2012
Freshman year of college I was a Republican hardliner and Pentecostal Christian. I had just graduated from an Appalachian public school where you could sometimes find teachers’ names written inside…
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SMOKE IN YOUR EYES: The Writer

  • MariNaomi
  • July 2, 2012
A Rumpus Comic from Mari Naomi about a relationship going to shit above a quiet, albeit invasive, literary neighbor:
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #141

  • Ted Wilson
  • July 2, 2012
EYEBROW DANDRUFF ★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
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The Poems That Let You In: A Special Rumpus Invitation

  • Gabrielle Calvocoressi
  • July 2, 2012
In honor of summer and poetic adventures The Rumpus Poetry Book Club is doing something special this evening. We’re opening tonight’s online Rumpus Poetry Book Club chat with Allan Peterson to everyone who’d like to come.
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The Rumpus Interview with Karolina Waclawiak

  • Roxane Gay
  • July 2, 2012
Roxane Gay talks with Karolina Waclawiak about her new novel, How to Get into the Twin Palms, the displacement of being from different worlds, loneliness, and Los Angeles.
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Sunday Rumpus Serialization: Your Life in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (#3)

  • Rob Roberge
  • July 1, 2012
1986: Liz—who you are in love with, while she thinks of you as friends who fuck—has always wanted a bed of rose petals to fuck on.
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