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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #235
MY RIDING LAWNMOWER ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my riding lawnmower.
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SELF-MADE MAN #30: Tenderness
I might inject testosterone every Thursday, but each man here is his own snowflake mix of glory days and Hail Mary second chances.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Pressing On
The love story of June Carter Cash and her husband Johnny inspired another young family, keeping them close and providing the soundtrack to their lives in dark times. Decades later, Jennifer Nix looks back on the kidney disease and estrangement…
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Where I Write #28: A Small Bench Between Two 25-Story Buildings
I was doing clerical work for a magazine publisher in a high-rise along the Wilshire corridor and each day I would take my one hour lunch on a small bench between two 25 story buildings. The proximity of all these…
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The Rumpus Review of Only Lovers Left Alive
Vampires have always been the sexiest of demon creatures, precisely because the bonds that connect them trigger every fear we have of connecting with another person…
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Chapman Commencement Speech (Shed That Skin)
When you want to turn your world upside down and see what falls out of it, shed that skin.
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The Rumpus Interview with Julia Fierro
Writer and founder and director of New York’s Sackett Street Writer’s Workshop Julia Fierro talks about her debut novel, Cutting Teeth, reading with scrutiny, being able to edit your own work, and motherhood.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stacey D’Erasmo
Novelist Stacey D’Erasmo sits down to discuss her latest book, Wonderland, indie rock’s lack of a net, the appeal of visual artists, and what it means to put your entire self in your work.
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Make/Work Episode 14: Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh
In Episode 14 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with creative couple Dan Nelson and Lexa Walsh about the challenges and benefits of building a life with someone who’s also engaged in a creative pursuit.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Roxane Gay
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Roxane Gay about her new novel An Untamed State, fairy tales, and the reality of violence that women face every day, everywhere in the world.
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Baseball with Mister Way
When summer arrived, the butler for the newcomer the villagers called “Mister Way”—they couldn’t pronounce Hemingway—came into town to fetch the boys. He left the house and followed the long drive to the gate, turned into the village, gathered the…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 5
There’s a unitary circulation between poet and reader. The poet dwells in the gap between dream and waking, and the reader is offered entryway to become alive and enlivened.