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Saturday Rumpus Essay: What Counts
He said: I love you, son, but I don’t have to like you. He asked: Do you love me?
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The Pleasure (and Privilege) of Indignation
Indignation clicks on in moments of perceived injustice. Unchecked, it rolls quickly out of control, gaining momentum at the expense of perspective.
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A FAN’S NOTES, THE RUMPUS SPORTS COLUMN #45: Postseason, Hooters
My friend Snake (he specifically requested this pseudonym) is an English professor, a Tennyson scholar, and a rabid New England Patriots fan.
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The Rumpus Interview with Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians
Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians, the co-founders of Melville House, share the history behind their thriving independent press—once earmarked as “a disaster in the making” and now celebrating its 10th anniversary.
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Exercises in Style
Exercises in Style has been one of the most beloved books in the New Directions catalog since they first published it in 1981.
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Stay Gold
I wanted to be the author of my own destiny, of my own chaos: I wanted to self-activate: I did not want to live my life half-asleep.
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The Rumpus Review of Zero Dark Thirty
A dizzying blitz of descriptors surrounds Katheryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty: pro-torture, anti-torture; anti-Bush, pro-Obama; mindlessly jingoistic, nuanced in its critique of American exceptionalism.
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The Stone of Help
My husband hunches over the table, picking at his quesadillas. I’m gulping the last of the water, dropping my plate in the sink with a clatter. An idea hangs in the air between us like a burnt smell. We’re arguing—or…
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The Rumpus Interview with Tom Kaczynski
Publisher of Uncivilized Books and comics artist Tom Kaczynski opens up about primal motifs, utopian thinking, and growing up with comic books in Poland.
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The First Three Pages of “Million Year Boom”
The first three pages of “Million Year Boom,” one of the stories featured in Tom Kaczynski’s new collection, Beta Testing the Apocalypse:
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Swinging Modern Sounds #40: A Miscellany of Musical Thoughts That Will Not Otherwise Appear
From June through December of 2012, I kept a diary of musical impressions that didn’t develop into longer pieces.
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SELF-MADE MAN #19: Notes on Negative Space
I’ve known what many would call evil: child abuse, a close call with a murderer. I know about other people’s dark impulses, and so I’ve been all the more terrified of my own.