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After a Fashion

  • Lad Tobin
  • July 23, 2013
Like a lot of men these days, the line between what I wear to go to work, to work out, and to sleep has gotten dangerously thin.
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Dispatch from the Carnival #1: The Trick is There is No Trick

  • Tessa Fontaine
  • July 22, 2013
We start by lighting parts of ourselves on fire that are easier to put out than our faces. Hands, to begin.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #191

  • Ted Wilson
  • July 22, 2013
THE NRA ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the NRA.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Painting a Week

  • Dorothy Rice
  • July 21, 2013
"I’d wanted to be a writer for so long the dream was part of me, like an organ, an extra heart...Only one thing was missing. I wasn’t writing."
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Shatter My Heart

  • Lisa Wells
  • July 19, 2013
On July 20th, 2003, a tour van rolled on I-5 south of Portland, OR, killing three of my friends. They were members of power-pop band The Exploding Hearts, and I’m…
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Last Meal

  • Liz Hildreth
  • July 18, 2013
They wanted to speak with me. They wanted to speak with my husband and me. They wanted to talk to us about our daughter.
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The Rumpus Interview with Dessa

  • Katy Henriksen
  • July 18, 2013
There are some important strands of humanity that I think do unite us, and I think stories are a powerful way of showcasing those universals or those commonalities.
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Surviving a For-Profit School

  • Stephen S. Mills
  • July 17, 2013
There were warning signs. Red flags. The school was located in a series of strip malls along a highway in a shitty part of town, but close enough to a nice part to appear, on paper, like a good place to go.
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The Rumpus Interview with Pam Houston

  • Rebecca Keith
  • July 17, 2013
Pam Houston discusses the art of travel, breaking down the barriers between fiction and memoir, biking across Canada, and continuing to write on the road—even after being bitten by a possibly-rabid dog while camping in the Gobi Desert.
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Deep Throat #6: On Being and Unbeing a Singer

  • Hanne Blank
  • July 17, 2013
The gulf between the place where I sang Mozart and Debussy with people my parents’ age and the place where I went to public school and tried to make friends with kids my own was vast.
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FUNNY WOMEN #104: Providing Birth Control to American Girl Dolls

  • Carolyn Parkhurst
  • July 16, 2013
At American Girl®, our celebration of girls doesn’t end at puberty--and now neither does our product line!
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The Rumpus Interview with Jessica Mason Pieklo and Robin Marty

  • Sarah Seltzer
  • July 16, 2013
Writers and activists Jessica Mason Pieklo and Robin Marty discuss their book, Crow After Roe, "the ever-roiling storm that is the American clash over abortion rights."
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