Rumpus Originals
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Where Celebrities Go to Die
Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler takes a crack at the underworld in a hit-and-miss new novel.
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The Rumpus Review of We Live in Public
Sizing up history is a tricky business: You can generally recognize that something is significant long before you can really say why or how. So it is with the Internet and its many pioneers. So it is with Josh Harris.
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #3: Weather Channel
Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995. Weather Channel Al Jiminy, two doors down in 13, is an addict. Day and night his TV beams feeds of storms lolling across the careless globe.
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Poems for the Gmail Generation
Brandon Scott Gorrell’s debut collection, During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present is an anxious, ambivalent ode to Internet culture.
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The Rumpus Interview with MC Lars
I was taken with the lyrics, the energy, and pure joy of the performance.
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A Quick Look at the Google Book Search Settlement
US district court judge Denny Chin will be ruling in a case on how we access printed books in the future. Who’s in the middle of a bid for our literary heritage? Google, of course.
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Sympathy for These Devils
Drug addicts, pimps, whores, misogynists, hoodlums… all the usual suspects inhabit the stories in Irvine Welsh’s new collection.
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Brotherly Love
My old man was like Zeus’s father Cronos: he couldn’t bear the idea that any of his children might surpass him. Life radiated from the central pulse of his scrap-metal yard; the world beyond it seemed to make him defensive…
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FUNNY WOMEN #1: The New Rumpus Humor Column: I Am Sorry That I Didn’t Write a Comedy Piece
I guess it’s time for me to get serious about writing this comedy piece. Emoticon.
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Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Lydia Peelle’s stories focus on scurrilous ne’er-do-wells who flail about in circumstances beyond their control.