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Have I Earned These Clichés?
When life is not the slightest bit luminescent, I read Lorrie Moore. She honors a commitment to the search for truth and morality through emotional and reachable means.
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You Know How It Is
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
Swinging Modern Sounds #22: Son of Interactive Playlist
Rick Moody shares the music he's listening to now thanks to suggestions shared by others.
A Modern Reader #1: Friending Dostoevsky
We all have reading habits. We read in bed, at the table, on the train. Perhaps you read standing up in your kitchen, waiting for your pasta water to boil.…
The Black Minutes
A crime novel set in a fictional Mexican city delves into the unsolved murders of two decades.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #35: Waiting By the Phone
But of course you’d know. You always knew.
The Rumpus Interview with Josh Wolf
At an anti-G8 demonstration in San Francisco in 2005, police and demonstrators clashed. Josh Wolf, then 23, videotaped the whole thing. When he refused to turn over his tapes to…
Underground America: Permanent Anxiety
“The Arizona law is not the problem. The problem is that we continue, on all sides of the political spectrum, to not listen to those most directly affected by immigration…
A Rich, Prickly Sense of Expansion
In A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, Becka Mara McKay reminds us that every language is a unique translation of a combination of desire and thought, both of which have…
10/40/70 #6: Punishment Park
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…