Rumpus Originals
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Juice!
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
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
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 puns for titles.
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The Rumpus Interview with Josh Fernandez
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?
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 wings and capacious vivid breath.
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The Revolution Is Incomplete
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 Forces. But this subverts the root of the rage in…
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All Over Coffee #541 Collaboration with Andrew Sean Greer
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 Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and…
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FUNNY WOMEN #58: As Seen on TV
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 to the kitchen and pour myself a bowl of Special…
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Still with the Scarlet Letters
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 with the atrocities she had witnessed as a human rights…
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The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1
The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1, charts the expansive career of an experimental science fiction writer.