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FUNNY WOMEN #105: Reflections of the Boyfriend of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl

  • Barbara Holm
  • August 6, 2013
I don’t even know her. But I do. I want to marry her and sleep by her side forever.
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For All the Saints

  • Laura Adamczyk
  • August 6, 2013
I’m a student, I say. My teacher has told me to go to a cemetery and find a stone, any stone, that speaks to me. I chose Kenda’s because hers gave more information, more anything, than any other stone I saw in the one cemetery I visited.
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The Rumpus Interview with James Vance

  • Greg Hunter
  • August 6, 2013
We talk to James Vance about the Great Depression, creeping pessimism, and the challenges of exploring these subjects in comics form in his new graphic novel On the Ropes.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #193

  • Ted Wilson
  • August 5, 2013
MY BREAKFAST WAFFLE ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my breakfast waffle.
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The Rumpus Interview with Thao Nguyen

  • Erin Lyndal Martin
  • August 5, 2013
“I wanted to try to be a real live person, rather than just singing songs about them,” singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen said about the turn her life took after releasing Know…
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Greenford’s Gift

  • Samina Najmi
  • August 5, 2013
Thirty-seven years after leaving the West London suburb—a psychic terrain as much as a geographical one—I can look back on it with something other than an anguished mix of tenderness and terror.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Last First Day

  • Bernadette Murphy
  • August 4, 2013
"My desires had now become too big, the call to a larger life too loud to be easily hushed." As her children age and her identity as a Mother shifts, the author must step outside the safety of an outgrown marriage.
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The Saturday Rumpus Comic: Equinox

  • Yumi Sakugawa
  • August 3, 2013
My arm hairs on my right arm have been growing into tiny trees...
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Margarine: A Public and Personal History

  • Paula Carter
  • August 2, 2013
When I think of sitting at the kitchen table as a child eating dinner, I don’t have memories of luscious homemade foods.
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The Rumpus Interview with Curtis Sittenfeld

  • Amy Gentry
  • August 1, 2013
Reading Curtis Sittenfeld’s carefully-observed novels, we get the impression that family is the most common form of natural disaster.
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The Puzzle Factory

  • Wm. Anthony Connolly
  • August 1, 2013
But their eyes, reasonably, come back to me for their startling brilliance, even on drugs, and for their alertness and their knowing.
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Artifacts

  • Onnesha Roychoudhuri
  • July 31, 2013
Question: How many years after realizing they weren’t in love did your parents stay together?
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