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FUNNY WOMEN #98: Classic Novels Rejected by Modern Publishing Houses

  • Molly Schoemann
  • March 26, 2013
How about adding a scene where Elizabeth Bennet accidentally places the winning bid on Mr. Darcy during a charity bachelor auction?
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OG DAD #19: The Scream

  • Jerry Stahl
  • March 26, 2013
It’s no secret, the amount of crying you have to listen to when you have a baby is astronomical. Before this, my exposure to crying females was pretty much limited…
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Firecracker

  • Teow Lim Goh
  • March 26, 2013
I heard the percussion first, the dong-chiang, dong-dong-chiang of the drums and cymbals that accompanied the lion dance. The rhythms reverberated in the body and drowned out the traffic around…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #176

  • Ted Wilson
  • March 25, 2013
WHALES ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing whales.
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All Over Coffee #486

  • Paul Madonna
  • March 25, 2013
"How do you get smarter...?"
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Cody Epstein

  • Padma Viswanathan
  • March 25, 2013
Novelist Jennifer Cody Epstein discusses her new book, The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, and explores representations of morality, how to address public acts of political violence, and the ramifications of war.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Totally Hosed

  • Bernadette Murphy
  • March 24, 2013
"In that instant, I believed I had killed him. And that my life, as I’d known it, had just ended."
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Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eloise Klein Healy

  • Wendy C. Ortiz
  • March 23, 2013
I am struggling with that issue now as I launch into being poet laureate in Los Angeles. But it’s the same old problem, isn’t it? Just doing the work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Tamas Dobozy

  • Brett Josef Grubisic
  • March 22, 2013
Writer Tamas Dobozy discusses the art of the short story, writing about Hungarian history, and why he still favors being published in literary journals above all else.
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Albums of Our Lives: Songs: Ohia’s Magnolia Electric Co.

  • William Boyle
  • March 22, 2013
The news of Jason Molina’s death came to me in a storm. I was about to teach a class when I saw the first posts announcing that he was gone.
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The Last Book I Loved: House of Leaves

  • Brandon O'Brien
  • March 22, 2013
There is nothing about the act of reading House of Leaves that is passive. This book requires effort.
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #43: Formative Experiences

  • Rick Moody
  • March 22, 2013
Often, I find, the musical experiences that have had the most lasting impact on me were not immediately apparent to me at the time.
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