Rumpus Originals
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There Is a Head Rolling Over the Platform: The Strange Case of George Lippard’s The Quaker City
On July 12, 1849, a man appeared at the offices, in Philadelphia, of the Quaker City, a newspaper. He was despondent and wearing only one shoe, and was seeking the editor and writer George Lippard. When he found him he…
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FUNNY WOMEN #53: An Editors’ Slush-Pile Meeting at the Backdoor Review
At Backdoor Review, we receive tens of thousands of submissions. We’ve collected a few cover letters and reprinted them now (without permission) with manuscript comments from our editors in italics.
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Long Drive Home
Will Alllion’s second novel Long Drive Home examines how one quick decision shapes a young father’s life.
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The Rumpus Interview with Scott McClanahan
McClanahan’s prose is unfettered and kinetic and his stories seem like a hyper-modern iteration of local color fiction.
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All Over Coffee
Out ThereClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press, the second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #88
TUNNELS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tunnels.
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Winter in America: A Musical Lamentation Offered on the Passing of Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron died on May 27, at age 62. As I write this, there’s no official cause of death. We’ll know soon enough. This is America, after all. Whatever the medical details suggest, I’m listing his official cause of death…
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The Mysterious Case of Novel-in-Stories
What does it mean exactly to claim that stories are linked, loosely or not? What must do the linking in order for the chain to hold?
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The Speed of Belief
We don’t always run a separate review of our Poetry Book Club selection, but you’re in luck here. Taylor Hagood takes us through Tracy K. Smith’s latest, Life on Mars.