Rumpus Originals
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Sorry, We’re Clothed
The Lusty Lady was a theatre. There was a live stage show, an old fashion peep show, and one-on-one sex shows in the Private Pleasures booth. There were video booths where you could watch porn like in an old arcade.
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The Silent Woman
An account of the marriage between Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller says a lot about the actress’s hygiene and sexual habits. The relationship, not so much.
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Eighteen Months in Love: The God of Small Things
I finished The God of Small Things in a pleathery airplane seat 30,000 feet above who-knows-where during the year and a half I lived in India as a speechwriter for an executive there.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #48
THE ALPHABET ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the alphabet.
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The Tiki King
“Zahlah quit the bed and saw her dark reflection in the full-length mirror. An American woman. That’s what she saw. Liberated and humiliated.”
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #29: My Elevator Ride With Captain America
In July, two nights after my daughter was born, I took the subway home from the hospital in the very early morning and spilled water all over the floor of the N train. The water poured out of a vase…
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Tao Lin Asks, and Answers, Four Questions
Monday at 3pm is the last chance to sign up for The Rumpus Book Club and receive Tao Lin’s new novel, Richard Yates, nearly a month ahead of its release date. Here are four questions, and four answers, about his newest…
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SMALL POTATOES:
SlanderClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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“Elena Wears the Robe”: The Rumpus Inaugural Poem
On August 5, 2010, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. She will be the 112th person to serve on the Court, and the 4th woman. The Rumpus is happy to mark this occasion with…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #19: Graduation Party
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Graduation Party It looks, from a distance, like a track and field tourney: so much avid motion in shorts and T-shirts the college field house rented for the occasion
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As If the Stars Invented Dinner
So what are Mazer’s actual poems like? They are, in their way, haunted.