Rumpus Originals
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FUNNY WOMEN #40: Music Quiz
Not only are women not funny, but also they don’t know anything about music.
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Asunder
“Boats are lost at sea. Drowning is different. Water fills the lungs making life at first difficult, then impossible, to sustain.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Rumpus Women
On Tuesday, November 30th, the Rumpus Book Club had about fifty people, including at least a dozen of the Rumpus Women authors, online at once. The discussions, which in real-time roared over each other with heedless enthusiasm, were like a…
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Ted Wilson reviews the World #64
SUPERMAN ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Superman.
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The Way We Live Now
Two recent books by Asian American writers confront stereotypes while exploring the rich interiority of the characters’ lives.
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James Franco In a Chair On a Stage
The actor/artist/writer/director talks for four hours about his process; young writer takes notes:
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Swinging Modern Sounds #27: All Things Must Pass
On 11/29, a band in Brooklyn called The Universal Thump staged a fortieth anniversary rehabilitation of George Harrison’s monumental All Things Must Pass album.
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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.