Rumpus Originals
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WHERE I WRITE #15: The Hospital Room
I’ve only rarely worried about death. The one time I actually was dying in a hospital for a while, I wasn’t worried about it.
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By Any Other Name
Like Freedom, Keith Scribner’s third book, The Oregon Experiment, is hugely ambitious, decidedly modern, distinctly American novel, with complicated family dynamics, and remarkable depth of character and psychological nuance.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #96
OF MICE AND MEN ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Of Mice and Men.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sloane Crosley
For a writer, Sloane Crosley’s a pretty fancy young lady. For starters, she’s been in the New York Times—for her fashion sense; she’s gone head to head with comedic Scottish bulldog Craig Ferguson
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Albums of Our Lives: Boysetsfire’s The Day the Sun Went Out
When I listened to those songs I felt like I could do anything, and had a place to direct my aimless angers and frustrations.
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The Rumpus Interview with William Giraldi
In a few days, Norton will publish Busy Monsters, the debut novel by William Giraldi. The book has received three starred reviews and a blurb from Harold Bloom.
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Their Eyes Like Geodes
In She Returns to the Floating World, Gailey utilizes anime and other aspects of Japanese culture, such as its folklore and attitudes following The Bomb, as she puzzles through how to define “she.”
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Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with Megan Boyle
On the evening of July 27 I interviewed Megan Boyle over gchat. Rather than prepare questions or focus on a specific topic, we used Wikipedia’s “random article” link to go to pages to generate content for our conversation.
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Why I Chose Kingdom Animalia
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club: