Rumpus Originals
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FUNNY WOMEN #30: My Four Relationships
The way you’re looking at me tonight, I know you’re ready to take this to the next level.
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The Canal
On a London bench, two strangers talk about desire and terror: “People wear masks. These masks, they do not even know they are wearing them.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Doug Dorst
“My warm-up technique appears to be to waste several hours on the web, waste several more telling myself I’m a fraud.”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #47
PLASTIC SURGERY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing plastic surgery.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Roach
Mary Roach discusses Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, the rigors of interviewing aerospace administrators, and why that process nearly caused her to abandon the book entirely.
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Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
In Packing for Mars, Mary Roach matches her curiosity and humor against government secrecy, drunken Russian cosmonauts, and free-floating turds.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #25: Chris Graham in Conversation in a Syrian Taxi
Mohaned works at a small hotel in Palmyra, a desert town in northeast Syria. On the side, he helps a friend pitch taxi rides to tourists. (Mohaned speaks Arabic and English; his friend speaks only Arabic.) The following is an…
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The First Annual Andrew Breitbart Short Film Festival
“The White House and [Agriculture Secretary Tom] Vilsack offered their profuse apologies to Shirley Sherrod for the way she had been humiliated and forced to resign after a conservative blogger [Andrew Breitbart] put out a misleading video clip that seemed…
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The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To
D. C. Pierson’s adolescent heroes hope for a future in which “‘existence engineer’ and ‘clone wrangler’ will be viable career paths.”
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The Rumpus Review of Inception
Here’s a little news worth sharing: Christopher Nolan does not shit solid gold. Like most people, he shits shit. Inception, for example. Let me explain: