Rumpus Originals
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Why I Chose Jena Osman’s The Network for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he chose Jena Osman’s The Network as the fourth selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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SPOTLIGHT SERIES:
Sophie YanowSophie Yanow grew up in a small Marin County town where people picked up their mail at the local post office. Her first encounters with comics were with Calvin and Hobbes, and Sonic the Hedgehog comics from the supermarket. In…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #12: Miss Marty, Mother of Strippers
New Orleans has a textured and macabre history when it comes to the sex industry, particularly regarding house moms–that hybrid of manager, referee and babysitter.
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FUNNY WOMEN #38: Actual Invented “Findings” from Harper’s Magazine
Scientists have identified the gene that inclines individuals toward excessive Post-It use. Three out of five British women misread the word “aviator” as “vibrator” after prolonged exposure to violent news broadcasts. Non-mammalian school mascots were associated with lower student body…
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Tales of Woe
Tales of Woe descends from one circle of hell to the next, an act of sabotage against the Hollywood narrative of sin, suffering, and redemption.
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Portrait of the Music Blogger as a Young Man: The Rumpus Interview with Aaron Wolfe
How a Brooklyn musician uses Tumblr to cover a song a night (roughly) and write accompanying life stories.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #61
LOOKING GOOD ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing looking good.
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I Hotel
The National Book Award finalist explores the roots of Asian American activism and paints a vivid portrait of revolutionary San Francisco.
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The Rumpus Interview with Gerald Stern
There’s a black and white photo in which the poet Stanley Kunitz lovingly holds Gerald Stern’s cheeks in both hands. It’s 1990. They’re looking into one another, and Kunitz says, “You’re the wilderness in American poetry.”
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A Shoe-Seller Speaks
I met Lauren (whose last name we are suppressing here) at a writing workshop in Provincetown almost fifteen years ago. She was shy, funny, brilliant, and very, very talented, and she dressed like one of those kids who had been…