Rumpus Originals
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Sexual Assault and the Military: An Interview with Staff Sergeant Lisa Rose
Reports of sexual abuse in the military are now higher than that of the civilian population. An annual report released in 2009 by the Department of Defense showed an 11 percent increase in sexual assault cases among service members over…
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First Utterances: On Rick Moody’s The Four Fingers of Death
Oh, man has invented his doom First step was touching the moon – Bob Dylan, “License to Kill”
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The Rumpus Interview With Neal Pollack
A year and a half ago, I started practicing yoga because I wasn’t feeling well. I could barely touch my toes and felt very self-conscious in yoga classes, but kept practicing because I started to feel better. I didn’t know…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #49
NAMBLA ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing NAMBLA.
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Less Is More
The stories in Mary Hamilton’s very, very short collection are vivid, surreal, experimental, funny, and emotionally devastating.
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SMALL POTATOES:
HomageClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Where did all the music go?
Breaking it down. THE OLD GUARD Just want to return to the old days. What are the old days? The nineties. Yes, the CD replacement business still existed, you could only buy albums, which were exorbitantly priced, and Napster had not yet…
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A Dark, Dark Summer Day: Fahey vs. Hollywood
How much bad Hollywood filmmaking can one man take in a day? With my wife and kids out of town for a week, I decided to find out.
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Dead Ahead
Doller’s facility with language, and his wheeling imagination, which pushes language into fresh directions, never ceases to delight the reader.