Rumpus Originals
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A New Cult of Domesticity
The speaker of The King doesn’t play into the randomly generated poems and discursive ironies of her generation; she lifts the curtain to the production, exposing the history of language’s (and romanticism’s) disintegration.
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The Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo with Rebecca Wolff
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
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Zak Smith in Conversation With Alexandros Vasmoulakis
90% of my street work has been made in Athens/Greece. The political and social situation there is pretty loose and that gives room for anomie of all sorts. It is not necessary to get a permission to paint in the public domain.
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Post-Young: The Junky List (or the Incredible Weirdness of Not Being Dead)
At seventeen, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes. I never actually thought I’d make it.
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Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway
Zoey Holloway’s background forced her to reckon with what it is to be “normal,” and she found home in the sex industry.
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Wild Kingdom
“Lydia Millet is one of the loosest writers I know. Her work takes rare risks with subject matter and form, and does so with a sense of jazzy improvisation.”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #4
TIME TRAVELERS ★★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing time travelers.
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Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others
A few weeks ago, the literature blog HTMLGiant hosted a heated discussion about whether or not difficult modernist novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses might find a publisher in today’s literary marketplace. Of the hundreds of responses to the thread and…
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SMALL POTATOES:
PalindromeSee a large scale, hand drawn version of this piece at 4 Barrel cafe, 375 Valencia Street, San Francisco Opening reception and Rumpus party Friday, October 9th, 6-8pm angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Swinging Modern Sounds #15: On Technique
In popular music circles, these days, very good instrumental technique is often considered bad form.
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Rooms of Their Own
Three generations of women cope with isolation, grief, and sex, in the first novel by the celebrated story writer, Rachel Sherman.