Rumpus Original
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Eleven
We don’t know how to talk about children anymore. We get so wrapped up in these shallow narratives about children being preternaturally advanced, about little girls wearing make up and dressing provocatively and seducing the camera, about little girls maturing…
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Turning Points #2: Cary Grant in Father Goose
To be accepted, to be relevant, he would need to become someone else. He would spend the next half-century creating that person and then, at age 60, decide that it was time to reveal his true self, in Father Goose.
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Osiris
My Korean mother leaves me on a fall day in the 1980s. I don’t know the year, only that it is cold, and she—who peels red apples in one unbroken skin, massages my calves when they’ve fallen asleep from sitting…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kitzia Esteva
A champion for immigrant rights, Kitzia Esteva talks about the fear and empowerment she embraced while on the UndocuBus, her work as a community organizer, and what Obama’s immigration policies mean to her.
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SELF-MADE MAN #18: In Real Life
I used to believe that collapsing the Venn diagram-space between the public and private self was the best way to ensure authenticity.
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Albums of Our Lives: Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town
Elizabeth and I took our first road trip a few months into our relationship.
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The ‘We’ of Single Motherhood
Taking this leap of faith alone has drawn a network around me in numbers stronger than if I had conceived a child inside a traditional relationship and family. In the big and small moments of this new kind of passage,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #162
THANKSGIVING, 2012 ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Thanksgiving, 2012.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Ronson
A “non-stop, fascinatingly meandering, frequently interrupting, talking-over-each-other, freewheeling kind of conversation” with bestselling author Jon Ronson.
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Used Books
1. The people who fret over the Future of the Book talk about the loss of the tactile, of the physical act of holding the book. Me, the only thing I worry about is no longer having used books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Dr. Matthew McKay
Matthew McKay, writer and the co-founder of New Harbinger Publications, explores his transition from nonfiction to fiction writing, and looks closely at dissociative identity disorder and what it means to love someone with this and other mental illnesses.
