Rumpus Originals
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #85
BROWN SUGAR ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing brown sugar.
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I am a Japanese Writer
With wit and insight, Dany Laferriere, the Haitian-Canadian novelist, explores national identity and cultural authenticity in his latest book, I Am a Japanese Writer.
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It Gets You Through: The Rumpus Interview with Edward P. Jones
I think that if the art is not made then the world will go on, but once the art is created, it sort of connects you with just about everybody else who’s around.
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A Ritual for Being Born Twice
Melissa Petro lost her job last summer after publishing an article on The Rumpus about her former life as a sex worker.
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An Interview with Jon Raymond
Oregonian Jon Raymond stays true to his roots. He has written three films to date (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and his latest, Meek’s Cutoff) all of which are set and filmed in his home state of Oregon. In addition,…
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To Absorb the Appendages of Time
Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams opens in theaters today. You walk out of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams overcome by the power of time. Personally, I find it almost impossible to conceptualize life in terms of time…
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No Trace of Origin, No Thorn
The poems in Copperhead use the deeply wrought questions with which it is concerned to wisely come up with a sort of memoir, which is attaching deeply felt memories with deeply felt language, thus making it literature.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
Friends with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Salman Rushdie and J.M. Coetzee, witness to 27 revolutions, and journalist of the century in his native Poland–Ryszard Kapuscinski, many believe, was unlucky not to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature before his death in 2007.
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“Where the Train Goes Slow:” An Excerpt from Johnny Cash’s American Recordings
We love the 33 1/3 series from Continuum, which explores individual albums through slender investigations from rock critics such as Rob Trucks on Fleetwood Mac and Amanda Petrusich on Nick Drake alongside takes from musicians like John Darnielle on Black…
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The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles
“I think we’re always a little bit in hell. Like how hot New York is in the summer. Or an intense, wonderful, hard, hard relationship could be hell, and you think, I will stay here forever, because I love you.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Patrick DeWitt
The Rumpus talks to Patrick DeWitt about his new book, The Sisters Brothers, the story of two brothers in Gold Rush California.