Rumpus Originals
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #31: Ben Roethlisberger and Flannery O’Connor
Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh quarterback disgraced last spring when a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexually assaulting her in a bar, is back on the field after serving a four-game suspension, and his Steelers are an impressive 5-1.
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Black Hole Sun
Ultimately, though, it’s the cadence of the voice that engages the reader. Slant rhyme, and skillfully enjambed couplets and tercets, are the real shakers.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #26: The Cessation of Miracles
The city of brotherly love is always reinventing itself, coming up with varieties of eccentricity meant to distract from its diet of horrors, for example, a good baseball team.
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Teleny and Camille
A story of gay erotica often traced to Oscar Wilde has been made into a luscious graphic novel, courtesy of Nefarismo illustrator Jon Macy.
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And This Is Word For Word: The Theory of Relatability and Rethinking Justin Long’s Face
There was a night last month where I couldn’t sleep. I had to be up early for another full day of screenings and filing at the Toronto International Film Festival, but my mind was cycling through a generic course of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #58
WHOEVER WROTE “FUCK YOU” IN THE DIRT ON MY CAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing whoever wrote “fuck you” in the dirt on my…
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Underneath the bleeping trappings of science fiction is a domestic drama: immigrant family, fighting parents, middle-aged father with failed dreams, sensitive son, mother in denial.
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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.