Rumpus Originals
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We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now
“I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life, is that the game is designed for its players to fail.”
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RUMPUS RADIO #1: Interview with K.Flay
Introducing the Rumpus—now in audio! What is your pun threshold? Are you ready for a pun battle between K.Flay and the International Pun Champion, Joe Sabia?
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FUNNY WOMEN #20: Holiday with Communists
First, you and your grandmother decorate Easter eggs to put on the Seder plate. This is her Passover tradition. She will have decided that Seder plates “could use a little more color.” More often than not, she will also be…
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Just Because You’re Paranoid…
David Aaronnovitch’s survey of global conspiracy theories ably debunks chestnuts old and new, but avoids closer analysis of what inspires them in the first place.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #29
THE DIAPHRAGM OF ANNE FRANK ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing The Diaphragm of Anne Frank.
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Hootie Populism: Darius Rucker Is Country Music’s Newest Hit-Maker
Editor’s Note: We realize this breaks our “no pop” rule, but this essay was too good to pass up. Darius Rucker is not Hootie. Instead, he’s Darius, the former lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, a band that since…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #15: Sinatra Time
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Sinatra Time It’s got nothing to do with nothing, pal, if you wanna know the truth.
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SMALL POTATOES:
Circle JerkClick here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #2
Kayla James, Age 5 Bellingham, Washington “He had a lot of cool toys, and I really liked the toys.”
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Life Is Not Karaoke Booth
In this debut novel, an American woman running from personal tragedy falls headlong into the confusions and solaces of Japanese culture.