Rumpus Originals
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No Bad News for the King
In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin (a pseudonym for an American journalist in Asia) untangles the convoluted story of contemporary Burma and the 2008 cyclone that killed over 100,000 people.
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All Over Coffee #540: Collaboration with Cheryl Strayed
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Cheryl Strayed. Click here to view.
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All Over Coffee #540
collaboration with Cheryl StrayedClick 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 Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #92
GUANTANAMO BAY PRISON ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Guantanamo Bay Prison.
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The Last Book I Loved: Mathilda Savitch
I befriended this narrator immediately—not necessarily because I agreed with her, but because I believed her.
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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE:
The Half GirlWhat 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, one for each act. An extraordinary collection of freakish curiosities.…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #30: What Is and Is Not Masculine
I’m writing about this profile, because I think this profile is a failure.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #77: The Truth That Lives There
Because wanting to leave is enough.
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Your Emptiness Has an Aqueduct In It
The Last Usable Hour might be one of our truest examples of serial poetry. Each of the book’s four sequences, and each of the poems that comprise them, stand as individual pieces and as chapters in a developing narrative.