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A Children’s Waltz

  • Catherine Tung
  • March 27, 2012
A collaboration between novelist Jessica Anthony and designer Rodrigo Corral yields a novel that makes our hearts move faster than our brains.
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  • Thomas Page McBee

SELF-MADE MAN #5: Flipbook

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • March 27, 2012
It’s magic hour on a Thursday. In my living room I do side planks on a mat for 90 seconds, and then 10 hard chin-ups in three sets.  I put…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #129

  • Ted Wilson
  • March 26, 2012
CADBURY CREME EGGS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cadbury Creme Eggs.
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Weird Novels by Lady Novelists

  • NancyKay Shapiro
  • March 26, 2012
In her novel Angel, Elizabeth Taylor turns the exploration of the relationship of the artist to her imagination, her drive, her self-opinion, her ego, on its ear.
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  • Sari Botton

Ghosts Are Real, At Least In Publishing

  • Sari Botton
  • March 26, 2012
"Ghostwriter" is a problematic word. It gives people the idea that we have some kind of other worldly power; that we’re able to hover over clients somewhere in the ether and read their minds, then write their books using only our own words.
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Sunday Fiction: Theater of Cruelty

  • Aimee Parkison
  • March 25, 2012
A balcony, a bed, a windswept curtain parting and falling, a white hand, candles reflected in distant mirrors – my actress’s eyes are suddenly lit as if by fire. 
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A Place Where We Are Everything

  • Roxane Gay
  • March 23, 2012
Oftentimes when having difficult conversations about complex topics, certain kinds of people (the small-minded, feeble-minded, profoundly ignorant, etc.) will try to derail the conversation.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With D. A. Powell

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • March 23, 2012
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with D.A. Powell about his poetry collection Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys.
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“Winter Lottery,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Michael McGriff

  • Rumpus Original Poems
  • March 23, 2012
Winter Lottery In the gray, frozen months, the pack rats moved into the garage and ruined everything.
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Drinking a Glass of Light

  • Joey Connelly
  • March 23, 2012
The emotional theme of the volume, the nostalgia and death that is announced in the book’s title and reaffirmed in almost every poem to some extent, is what I know…
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Albums of Our Lives: Tori Amos’ Boys for Pele

  • Jason Diamond
  • March 23, 2012
Boys for Pele came out around the time I lost my virginity.  This was a very sensitive time in my life, because I knowingly had bad sex with a more experienced partner,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Adam Dorn, a.k.a. Mocean Worker

  • May Cobb
  • March 22, 2012
With his latest release, Candygram for Mowo, DJ/Bassist/Electronic Artist/Producer/Remixer Adam Dorn, a.k.a Mocean Worker, has whipped up an addictive, luscious confection: a feel-good album that’s a throwback to the dance…
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