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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #79: Soul-Sucking Spirit Death

  • Sugar
  • July 7, 2011
When people allow dark crazy thoughts to rule their actions and emotions they like to drag other people into that dark crazy space, too.
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TRUTH SERUM:
Things (Part 1)

  • Jon Adams
  • July 7, 2011
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Juice!

  • Leland Cheuk
  • July 7, 2011
Juice!, the new novel from Ishmael Reed, readdress the O.J. Simpson trial through the eyes of a black cartoonist, Paul Blessings.
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All Over Coffee #541 Collaboration with Andrew Sean Greer

  • The Rumpus
  • July 7, 2011
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Andrew Sean Greer. Click here to view. …more
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Giving Up

  • Anthony Marra
  • July 7, 2011
I arrived at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the fall of 2009 having written only a handful of short stories in my life. Most were from high school. Most had…
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The Rumpus Interview with Josh Fernandez

  • Jonathan Kiefer
  • July 6, 2011
I remember reading a journal, thinking, “If I read the word ‘tendril’ one more time, I’m going to jump out of this window.” Luckily, I was outside.
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Would You Do That Again?

  • Taylor Hagood
  • July 6, 2011
In short, the book offers the expert work of an expert: it is as if Bly is writing messages against the sky using not a plane but his own flawless…
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Maakies:
Good Sir

  • Tony Millionaire
  • July 6, 2011
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The Revolution Is Incomplete

  • Christian Vachon
  • July 6, 2011
It is tempting to read the photos of last week’s renewed conflict in Tahrir Square as yet another isolated round of violence between the Egyptian youth and the Central Security…
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All Over Coffee #541 Collaboration with Andrew Sean Greer

  • Paul Madonna
  • July 5, 2011
Click image to enlarge: Written by Andrew Sean Greer. 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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FUNNY WOMEN #58: As Seen on TV

  • Katie Heaney
  • July 5, 2011
A day in the life of a woman whose life is exactly how all TV ads think it is: The first thing I do when I wake up is dance-twirl…
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Still with the Scarlet Letters

  • Roxane Gay
  • July 5, 2011
Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping…
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