Rumpus Originals Archives - Page 607 of 812

Dec 21, 2011

Record Related #2: Wild Flag, Wild Flag, Wild Flag

Wild Flag, S/T (Merge) / live at The Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 10/18/11 Eleanor Friedberger, best known as half of The Fiery Furnaces, sings the ultra-catchy, ’70s-damaged “My Mistakes.”

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Carter

Rumpus Original, Sari Botton

Sari Botton

Dec 21, 2011

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Carter

I realize I’m especially drawn to memoirs, novels and story collections in which the author or protagonist is at odds with one parent or both, and wrestles with feeling like a tremendous disappointment to them.

Features & Reviews, Poetry, Reviews, Rumpus Original

Julie Brooks Barbour

Dec 21, 2011

Somewhere Below the Solar Plexus of Her

What does it take for a person to kill a living thing, then a human being? Why are the truths of war silenced?

Comics, Rumpus Comics

Tony Millionaire

Dec 21, 2011

MAAKIES: Math

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Funny Women, Humor, Rumpus Original

Patricia Mitchell

Dec 20, 2011

FUNNY WOMEN #70: Top Vaginal Scents for the Holiday Season

Okay, ladies, you’ve read our tips on pleasing your man in the bedroom, but over the years many of our faithful readers have written in with the same concern:

Features & Reviews, Reviews, Rumpus Original

Malcolm Forbes

Dec 20, 2011

Toteninsel in English

New in English, Gerhard Meier’s 1979 Isle of the Dead recalls W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn as two friends traverse their town, discussing nature and death in elegant prose.