Rumpus Originals
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How to Leave Hialeah
“Crucet is endowed with the double vision that helped Richard Wright and Salman Rushdie describe the lives of marginalized people with poignancy, humor, and rich music.”
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Poetics and Slaughter
2005 saw the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Danilo Kiš. He died of lung cancer in 1989.
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The Rumpus Shorty Q & A with Jeffrey Lewis
So why does Eric Clapton sell a lot more records than Daniel Johnston?
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Gidget On the Couch
“The thing to remember is that, since 1957, surfing as something you buy has overshadowed surfing as something you do.” An exclusive excerpt on the origins of surfing from the best of the Believer essays, Read Hard.
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Why I Write
It’s natural to want more, to grow, to change, to grow up. But it’s easy to forget why we do what we do.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #21
Do you trust this guy enough to level with him about your concerns?
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Underachieving as Art: The Rumpus Interview With Benjamin Anastas
Follow the curve, as it goes down… down… down… Such is the tone of Benjamin Anastas’ An Underachiever’s Diary, just recently reissued as a Dial Press Trade Paperback and concurrently billed as the “the funniest, most underappreciated book of the…
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Why We Need Health Care Reform
Our nation is now engaged in a great debate about the future of health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has been focused on the loudest voices. What we haven’t heard are…