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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #40: Shrinking Paterno

Somehow, though I haven’t watched a single minute of NFL television coverage yet this fall, I have been unable to escape the Coors Light beer commercials featuring shrunken mini-likenesses of…

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The Rats Are Not Doing Well

Fleming’s writing is deeply rooted in the narrative, myth-forming traditions of prose as well as the atmospheric aspirations of poetry.

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The Rumpus Interview with Dar Williams

I discovered Dar Williams back in high school when I was, misguidedly, trying to be a singer-songwriter.

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column: A Special Request

My question is simple, but complex: for what are you grateful?

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The Singing Caryatids of Modern Moscow

Victor Pelevin’s new novella, Hall of the Singing Caryatids, satirizes contemporary capitalism in a smart and fun critique of what we do for money and with money.

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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #14: Phoenix Rising, An Interview with Nadia Payne

In 2010, in New Orleans, thousands of Saints fans danced wildly in the streets in black and gold jerseys and ribbons, blowing horns and smacking tambourines. I commuted from LA…

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Observations from Occupy Des Moines

The Occupy Movement is under attack in major cities across the country, and with the weather turning colder, occupiers find themselves facing new obstacles. This is a report from the…

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Southern Enlightenment

With healthy doses of Axl Rose and methamphetamines, two new collections, from journalist John Jeremiah Sullivan and crime fiction writer Frank Bill, call forth the power of place and personal…

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The Memory of a Coin

Alliterative poems dually titled with different years provide each of the book’s two parts with bones to an otherwise fleshless narrative. Placed upon the page like fossils for an extinct…

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The Rumpus Interview with Jillian Lauren

Jillian Lauren’s first book, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, tells her true story of living in a harem in Brunei. She is most recently the author of Pretty,…

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Silhouettes

I never thought I’d shoot a gun. But here I was, standing at the glass counter, looking down at an array of gleaming pistols laid out like deadly jewelry.

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In Defense of Translation

Professor and translator, David Bellos celebrates the enlightening task of translation in his new book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything.

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