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All Over Coffee #555
collaboration with Cheryl Strayed

Click image to enlarge: … Written by Cheryl Strayed. For more information on collaborative All Over Coffee strips, go to allovercoffee.com. … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday…

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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE:
The Siamese Twins

What is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics,…

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Rumpus Original

Occupy Des Moines

Today, there were protests going on in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Barcelona, San Francisco–most major cities around the globe–all inspired by Occupation of Wall Street that began 4 weeks…

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The Rumpus Interview with Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson once watched an acquaintance light a 50-dollar bill on fire for the hell of it. He was not impressed. Living and working as a computer programmer in Silicon…

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The Allure of Arithmetic: Rumpus Review of Moneyball

Ever since its invention in the mid-19th century, people have seen baseball as a metaphor for American life. Writers and filmmakers from John Updike to Ken Burns have used the…

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TRUTH SERUM:
Dating

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A Nova of Votives

In this collection, the elegy as an idea is as much at stake as the lover in memoriam—in fact, it would seem that Teare has managed, through sublimation, to combine…

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Songs of Our Lives: Frida Hyvönen’s “Pony”

His loneliness lay around me like a fence. The promise was that once I solved the loneliness the fence would dissipate. But I couldn’t solve it.

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A Life Defined By Circumstance: Maryam Keshavarz Explores Freedom In Tehran

In 1982, my parents packed a suitcase and paid a smuggler to help them escape from Tehran, Iran. The reason? Me.

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Moby Dick: Illustrated and Interpreted

Through playful and evocative illustrations, Matt Kish’s Moby Dick in Pictures transforms on one of the greatest American novels and makes it relevant again.

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Why I Chose Bear, Diamonds and Crane

Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan’s Bear, Diamonds and Crane as the October selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:

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The Rumpus Interview with Andrew Haigh

Having spent much of his working life as an editor, 38-year-old British writer-director Andrew Haigh knows very well the way that disparate scenes can be woven together to form a…

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