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The Rumpus Review of Please Give
Many reviews of Nicole Holofcener films open with the standard criticism that her characters are mean–which is the sort of accusation that, if it took place in a Nicole Holofcener film, would hardly elicit a shrug.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #45
CSI: MIAMI: THE SOUNDTRACK ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing CSI: Miami: The Soundtrack.
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Under the Small Lights
This prize-winning novella takes a mature, nuanced look at a group of friends trying to navigate the transition from adolescence into adulthood.
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From Shrinking Solid to Expanding Gas: The Writing Life
They were rusted and unwieldy, heavy like useful things just aren’t anymore. Carved shakily into the left blade of my father’s scissors it read in magic: COPY BOY.
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The Rumpus Interview With David Means
Twelve years ago, at the McDowell Colony, a new friend told me that the best short story collection he could remember reading was by a young writer named David Means
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Like Mercury Over a Wall of Garnets
A particular joy of this book is the apprehension of current—biological, electric and historical, and in other forms—that distinguishes the most rigorously thrumming beats from their sallow imitators.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #44: How You Get Unstuck
Dear Sugar, About eighteen months ago, I got pregnant. In a move that surprised both my boyfriend and me, we decided we wanted to keep the baby. Though the pregnancy was unplanned, we were really excited to become parents and…
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The Unveiled Animal
Joshua Mohr’s second novel returns to the seedy side of San Francisco, where the addicted and the lost search for redemption.
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Lunch with Carson
On a chilly February afternoon in 1959, Carson McCullers, Marilyn Monroe and Isak Dinesen had lunch.
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10/40/70 #15: Raw Deal
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Raw Deal by Anthony Mann.
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Wait
Now in his seventh decade, C. K. Williams has published many books and won the big prizes, but the poems in Wait are fresh—he does not merely rely on old blueprints, but continues the struggles that have preoccupied him throughout…
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Talks with Teachers #1: Mutual Respect
“You have to prove your commitment to the students, but that commitment has to be to making them a better student not to changing them into something you think they should be.”