Rumpus Original
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The Rumpus Interview with Jacinda Townsend
Novelist Jacinda Townsend tells us about her new book Saint Monkey, her love of Morocco, and past life as a lawyer.
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FUNNY WOMEN #119: Why Jeannie Drank, a Colloquium
The aim of this inter-, multi-, trans-disciplinary conference is to open discussion on how personal vs. community responsibility can be apportioned and other jargon.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 8
When you trust the wisdom from the art of poetry as a guide to writing your new poems, you put your writing in service of something larger than your own ambitions and impulses.
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Over the Hill
What’s really fascinating about the end of an athlete’s career is not his decline; it’s what comes next.
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Bombing the Bookclub
We had a number of people quit The Rumpus Book Club today because I wrote in a Daily Rumpus email that Israel should stop bombing Gaza.
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #240
THIS MAZE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing this maze.
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The Rumpus Interview with Katie Crouch
Katie Crouch discusses Etruscan history, the Amanda Knox trial, and turning fact into fiction for her novel Abroad.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Emily Parker
“If you are a critic of the Chinese government, it’s not easy to organize a physical gathering. Beijing cracks down hard on that kind of thing. But online, critics find they are not alone.”
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The Last Book I Loved: Human Wishes / Enemy Combatant
…there’s something thrilling and subversive and almost sexual about finding a novel that bothers to think about what it is to be a novel.
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The Rumpus Review of Palo Alto
Director and screenwriter Gia Coppola has done an amazing job of distilling a cohesive narrative from Franco’s disparate stories…
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Sound & Vision: Gail Ann Dorsey
Gail Ann Dorsey, a top session bassist and singer-songwriter who’s worked with David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Dar Williams, Tears For Fears, the Indigo Girls, Gwen Stefani, Lenny Kravitz, and many more, talks recording, touring, and learning to play.
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The Rumpus Interview with Françoise Mouly
Comic publishing pioneer Françoise Mouly discusses bringing comics to the mainstream, life at The New Yorker, and the burdens of being legendary.