Rumpus Originals
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The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters
Two funny women interviewed each other about their lives. They’re also sisters. They were raised like twins, best friends, by a hovering yet distracted Jewish mother and a drama-and-opera-prone psychiatrist father.
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FUNNY WOMEN #36: 25 Things You Didn’t Know About Adrien Grenier, EXPOSED
On July 1, 2010, Entourage star and eco-friendly cleaning product Adrian “Charisma” Grenier told Us Magazine “25 Things You Didn’t Know About Him,” a Proustian exercise designed to give readers a greater insight into the minds and hearts of their…
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GENERATION GAP #6: An Advice Columnist Asks For Advice
Although we all talked about keeping in touch, we knew it was really a goodbye dinner.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club with Timothy Donnelly
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Timothy Donnelly about his poetry collection, The Cloud Corporation.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #54: The Lusty Broad
The question is how would your life be transformed if you chose to love this time for once with all your intelligence?
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That Sick Feeling
Janice Shapiro’s characters see that the game of womanhood has no winners—and some are frantic for an escape that they do not find.
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The Rumpus Interview with Quest for Kindness
Quest for Kindness seemed, to me, like career suicide, but in a warm and self-sacrificing way.
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Pastries, Cowboy Music / That Kind of Shit
Reading, and re-reading these poems, you’ll find lines which are so outrageous, hilarious, and true that they get lodged in your head, like songs; and, you’ll find yourself quoting the poems to others, because they seem so apt in their…
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The Rumpus Interview with Maile Meloy
“Short stories are hard because you have to start over every time, but they’re what I did first. I like living in a novel, as a writer and as a reader, but sometimes you can’t see your way out.”