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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 too long—is very suddenly gone.

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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, I’ve found love and connection in the intersecting hubs.

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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…

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Happy Thanksgiving!

“Happy Thanksgiving!” from all of us here at The Rumpus.

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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.

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