Rumpus Originals
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #58: The Light That Just Entered the Room
Your letter is a litany of contradictions, much to my relief. It tells me there is a space between what’s perceived and what’s possible.
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MEANWHILE,: The San Francisco Dog Walkers
Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the world of San Francisco dog walkers.
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Get Off Your Ass and Blow Shit Up
The Avian Gospels is a strange, compelling parable about an authoritarian city-state, an underground resistance, and a plague of mysterious birds.
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The Gray Side of The Moon
I heard Bucky Sinister read this poem at the Quiet Lightning reading series and it was so beautiful I asked him if we could publish it here. – Stephen Elliott
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Falling in Love with Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
The novel has a progression and a movement forward, though not exactly a plot. Things change, things happen, people make choices, and by the end things are different.
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FUNNY WOMEN #39: Revenge Is Best Served Warmly
I often think about the five people I’d invite to a fantasy dinner party. They are: Jesus Christ, Rick Springfield, my late grandmother, my ex-boyfriend Steve, and a celebrity chef.
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The Rumpus Interview with Michael Klein
Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author whose poetry collections 1990 and Poets for Life are winners of the Lambda Literary Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches memoir writing in the summer program at the…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #63
GLUE TRAPS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing glue traps.