Rumpus Originals
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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 complex, unified whole. All that’s required is a critical eye…
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Everything Sweeter and More Fragile Now
David Budbill’s recent collection of poems, Happy Life, doesn’t beg to be discovered; it smiles and waits for the reader to take its hand and take a walk through the woods.
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How Documentaries Could Rule The World
I. Non-fiction rules! Starting as far back as 50 years ago, non-fiction set out to crush fiction in the book world.
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Occupy Your Conscience: A Rumpus Exaltation
When I was four or five years old, my mom and dad called me and my brothers into the living room.
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Scenes From The Movie Cherry, Illustrated
Ian Huebert’s posters for the movie Cherry, directed by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott.
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A Visible Man In An Invisible World
Cognitive dissonance abounds in Chuck Klosterman’s second novel, The Visible Man, which ostensibly is about a guy who uses his ability to become virtually invisible as a way to enter peoples’ homes and watch them.
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Missing Tiles in the American Mosaic: The Rumpus Interview with Alia Malek
In late October 2000, Alia Malek, the American daughter of Syrian immigrant parents, started work as a civil rights lawyer in the U.S. Justice Department. She then watched the newly-elected Bush Administration re-direct
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #105
BRAD, THE FRONT DESK CLERK AT THE HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Brad, the front desk clerk at the Holiday Inn…