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The Rumpus Interview with Christian Wiman
Poet and essayist Christian Wiman discusses landscape, elegy, and the strain between doubt and belief.
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The Rumpus Interview with Volodya
Freedom Porn administrator and amateur performer Volodya discusses running an anarcho-porn website and masturbation as political expression.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #253
MOVIE THEATER POPCORN ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing movie theater popcorn.
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
McBride has said that she wants this book to be read fast, letting it wash over you, but the struggle to make sense and to fill in the unsaid is hard to resist.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Friday Night Lies
“This is a night of more than just football. It’s a night of fresh haircuts and blushed cheeks. It’s four-wheel drive trucks, it’s spent Zima caps and condoms, it’s Levis and short skirts and lights so bright you have to…
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Why You Should Care About Hong Kong
They may be only seven million, a small dot on the globe, but what is happening right now in Hong Kong might have deeper implications than you think.
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The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
A short story collection 15 years in the making, a “slacker intellectual” aboard an aircraft carrier, and poems about everyday political frictions—it’s all in our books coverage this week.
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The Rumpus Interview with Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher discusses going extinct, iPads and iPhones, epistolary novels, and why the number of MFA programs in the U.S. is a non-issue.
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Damage: The Soul-Crushing Science of High-End Bra Shopping
What did it mean to be damaged? Beyond repair? Short of surgery, there was no going back. More importantly, back to what?
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Make/Work Episode 19: Angela C. Villa and Thollem McDonas
In episode 19 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with documentarian Angela C. Villa and musician Thollem Macdonas.
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Paper Trumpets #9: The Boy and the Kangaroo
The latest installment of Paper Trumpets feature two collages stemming from one LIFE Magazine image.
