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THE LONELY VOICE #15: Be Aware of Your Own Ridiculousness, A Small Tribute to Václav Havel

That Václav Havel’s death was overshadowed by Kim Jong Il, that loopy coward, is a joke that might have made Havel, the writer, laugh. Idiot tyranny finally pays him back…

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Wet Matches

I was waiting for her. I’d found the only room I could afford near the Prado in a pension that was being run as a transvestite brothel.

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Synapses Erupt Like Sparrows

In Sancta, divinity irradiates. The afterlife approaches nuclear, dangerous and fascinating, a mysterium tremendum fascinans that can kill you with overexposure.

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The Rumpus Review of Shame

Beneath Shame’s veneer of soulless chic and artful grit, there’s an urgency that’s like an infant’s cry: blunt yet piercing, aware only of its own pain.

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Strange, surreal and occasionally macabre, the new short-fiction anthology The Speed Chronicles offers a primer on a class of illicit substances—and a category of human experience—at once painful and joyous.

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FUNNY WOMEN #71: My Attempts at Sexting

My boyfriend recently informed me that I might be approaching this “sexting” trend wrong. I’m not sure if I agree.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #117

SKY MALL ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Sky Mall.

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Fitzgerald’s Lost Road Trip

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s long-lost account, The Cruise of the Rolling Junk, follows Zelda and Scott on an eventful road trip in the 1920s.

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The Rumpus Review of We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin is unlike any other horror story played out on the big screen.

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The Garden, Disseminated, Overgrown

Out of reverence for the body’s irreducibility, Mort’s keeps strictly close to the phenomenal world, thereby freeing her imagination to honor all the body’s modes: five-fold sensuality, hunger as well…

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The Rumpus Interview with Mirah

Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born in 1974) came up in the fertile Olympia scene of the late ’90s. She was part of the K Records renaissance along with bands like…

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #93: How the Real Work Is Done

We can all have a better life if we make one.

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THE LONELY VOICE #15: Be Aware of Your Own Ridiculousness, A Small Tribute to Václav Havel

Wet Matches

Synapses Erupt Like Sparrows

The Rumpus Review of Shame

The Drugs Do Work

FUNNY WOMEN #71: My Attempts at Sexting

Ted Wilson Reviews the World #117

Fitzgerald’s Lost Road Trip

The Rumpus Review of We Need To Talk About Kevin

The Garden, Disseminated, Overgrown

The Rumpus Interview with Mirah

DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #93: How the Real Work Is Done

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