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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Mooallem

Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones, sits down to discuss human attitudes towards animals, copulation hats, chasing Martha Stewart across the tundra, and the historical relationship between Thomas Jefferson and mammoths.

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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: BOB DYLAN’S BLONDE ON BLONDE

The album was the warm yellow window of someone else’s house as you walk by on a cold night. Listening to it was the feeling you get when you look into this stranger’s window and wish you lived there.

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Admit You’ve Paid For It: The Savage Honesty of David Henry Sterry

Writer, performer, educator, and activist David Henry Sterry talks about the deep cultural roots of shame associated with the American sex industry, and how freeing it can be to bleed out the truth about our lives as buyers and sellers of sex.

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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Annie M. Sprinkle

Being a whore was great preparation for being an artist.

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On Loitering

In Charles Moore’s iconic black-and-white photograph, Coretta looks on stoically, lips parted, hands clasped in front as her husband, Martin Luther King, has his right arm bent behind his back…

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Women Are Bitches

“Women are bitches,” says a young man as he sits down. Apparently a woman at the bar wouldn’t give him her number.

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ALBUM #5, AUDIO PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT WORK: Ariel Schrag

Ariel Schrag first achieved recognition in her teens, when she began writing the autobiographical comic books Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise

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Why I Chose Gregory Orr’s River Inside the River for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

But grace is what I found in River Inside the River. Grace in abundance.

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A Zealot and a Poet

I like to imagine him out there on his beast of burden, vast grey country on all sides and a book of poetry open in his hand. It is a romantic image and, when I think only of it, I can almost forget why he was there.

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The Rumpus Interview with Sandra Bernhard

In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she'll be performing this week.

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