Rumpus Original
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Donkey Kong in Trouble
Let’s say it’s Redwood City, California, in the year 2000. It’s just barely summer, May or June. I just got out of middle school, but maybe not, maybe I have a year left, and I failed my math course for the year, so…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chad Stokes of Dispatch
These guys gave up the dream of every fledgling college band. And yet, still, more than a decade later — they are arguably bigger than they would’ve been had they stayed together.
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Give Something, Get Something
I know I don’t truly understand what blood money really means, or what it is to offer up the vein, to be willing to give anything just to get by, but I have learned this: just because a story has…
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FUNNY WOMEN #87: Delusions of Grandeur
I told him that I was a novelist and modeled in between books to support the online charity I’d founded to send unwanted makeup to women abroad.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #154
SALAMANDERS ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing salamanders.
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The Rumpus Interview With Kevin Moffett
The first time I almost heard of The Silent History from Eli Horowitz was three or so years ago.
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The Rumpus Interview with Scott Hutchins
Longtime Rumpus contributor Scott Hutchins discusses his debut novel, A Working Theory of Love, the Turing test, instant messaging chatbots, and whether technology is actually in danger of isolating and alienating people.
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I needed to see what was in there, what was making my skin feel so unattached from my body, from the tissue that lies underneath.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is the most interesting kind of… hmm… I was going to use the word “genius,” but maybe that’s not quite right for a man who spends seventeen years honing one brilliant book.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Ries
Rachel Ries is a singer/songwriter from South Dakota with a homespun style, hand-sewing fabric sleeves for limited edition EPs and selling homemade jam at shows. Her music is an exquisite blend of folk, blues, and jazz, inspired by the sounds…
