Rumpus Originals
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Twin Cities by Carol Muske Dukes
Muske-Dukes’s book seems the perfect read for this time of year when the year is winding down, yet life is still rumbling forward.
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CHERYL STRAYED IS SUGAR!(!!!)
We are ECSTATIC to announce that author Cheryl Strayed is Sugar! Her forthcoming memoir, Wild, is our March Rumpus Book Club selection! (Click here to join.) But that’s not all: we’ll be linking to numerous profiles, coverage of last night’s…
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All Over Coffee #571 Love On the High Seas
A gorgeous Valentine’s Day All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna. Click here to view. …more
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All Over Coffee #571
Love on the high seasClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. The second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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On Pointe, and in Limbo
Martha Schabas’ Various Positions is an excellent novel about performance anxiety and sexual development disguised as a young adult novel.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
Comic, writer, feminist, advice-giver, and all around awesome person Sara Benincasa discusses her new memoir, Agorafabulous! Dispatches From My Bedroom.
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Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them
Do you know what you’re saying? Do you really?
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #123
CUPID ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cupid.
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The Glory of the Sunken
Set in a profane and beautiful world of uncertain values—a world that resembles ours but is in fact post-World War I Bucovina—Gregor von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol is a delight.
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THE LONELY VOICE #16: Between the Public and the Sky (Part One of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)
Whoever leads a solitary life and yet now and then feels the need for some kind of contact…