Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Interview with Pinckney Benedict
“I certainly hope we’re all writing about those things that matter most to us.”
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #28: The Toss-Up Talcum Chronicle
Much ado about LeBron James, Haruki Murakami, free agency, and home.
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Herself, Only Reversed
The Hollywood dreams of this novel’s heroine are much like the tenets of her fundamentalist upbringing: first sacrifice, then redemption, then apocalyptic paradise.
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The Man I Gave a Hand Job in West Hollywood Will Surely Blow His Brains Out Before I See Him Again
I was dumped over the phone by the man I’ve been dating for several months. I’d never had such an abrupt, hostile break up.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #43
I-PHONE 4 ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the I-phone 4.
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SMALL POTATOES:
Aesop’s PotatoesClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Walt Whitman’s Watering Hole: Pfaff’s Cellar, NYC
Whitman became a regular at Pfaff’s after getting fired from the Brooklyn Daily Times in 1859. The years before the Civil War were a decadent period where Whitman played the bon vivant, finding friends and lovers among the New York…
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The Queen of Flash Fiction
In curt sentences detailing many unsettled lives, Kim Chinquee constructs a mosaic of despair in modern day America. Life is already hard, but attempts at intimacy (what many of the people in these pages seek) do not always further the…
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GENERATION GAP #4: Sexting in the 18th Century
About a year after the breakup, I started keeping a text message journal.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #42: No is Golden
But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn’t mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again.
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The Private Lives of Trees
The second novella by Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, one of the “Bogotá 39” influential Latin American writers, uses metafiction to tell a delicate, emotionally complex story.