Rumpus Original
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Smith and Charlie Hoey, the Brains Behind the Great Gatsby Game
When you think about The Great Gatsby, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Booze? Flappers? Car crashes?
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #78
TWINS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing twins.
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Jennifer Egan Wins Award; Gives Me Advice
Elissa Bassist shares her personal notes after having a conversation with Jennifer Egan:
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The Tiger’s Wife
John Wilwol reviews Tea Obreht’s new novel, The Tiger’s Wife, which vibrates with the low rumble of unanswered and unanswerable questions that keeps us up at night.
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Look Back in Horror: The Rumpus Interview with David Sirota
David Sirota writes a weekly column that appears in dozens of newspapers. He has his own radio show. And he’s a frequent guest on cable TV gabfests. These facts should qualify Sirota as a pundit. But it feels wrong –…
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Your Worst May Be My Best, or Vice Worse-A
Like the poems it contains, The Takeaway Bin as a whole is a response to something commonplace; one might even say it’s a book of copings with or responses to life.
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Passport to Trespass
Photographer/rambler Mikael Kennedy shares photos from the seventh volume of his over-a-decade-long project, Passport to Trespass:
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NY Times “Responds” to Backlash
What Rhoades Ha and the New York Times fail to understand is that the backlash is not about readers misinterpreting these quotes as belonging to the reporter, James C. McKinley Jr. It is about everything else.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #67: The Black Arc of It
But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.
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The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
There are crimes and then there are crimes and then there are atrocities. These are, I suppose, matters of scale.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #35: The Monster and Carmelo Anthony
Thanks to the most anticipated trade of this year’s NBA season, Carmelo Anthony (“Melo” for short) has left behind the soothing powder blue uniform of the Denver Nuggets and switched to the orange-and-royal-blue hues of the New York Knicks.
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Annotating Tennyson
Actually, everything’s like that, isn’t it? You know: layered, couched in events, touched—soiled, perhaps, or perhaps sanctified—by hands, eyes. Sometimes briefly glimpsed. Sometimes lightly pondered. Occasionally, noted.