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Hootie Populism: Darius Rucker Is Country Music’s Newest Hit-Maker
Editor’s Note: We realize this breaks our “no pop” rule, but this essay was too good to pass up. Darius Rucker is not Hootie. Instead, he’s Darius, the former lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, a band that since…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #15: Sinatra Time
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Sinatra Time It’s got nothing to do with nothing, pal, if you wanna know the truth.
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #2
Kayla James, Age 5 Bellingham, Washington “He had a lot of cool toys, and I really liked the toys.”
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Life Is Not Karaoke Booth
In this debut novel, an American woman running from personal tragedy falls headlong into the confusions and solaces of Japanese culture.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #29: Go! Go! Go!
To get what you want in a romantic relationship you must say what you want.
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What I Saw: Animal Collective and Danny Perez at the Guggenheim
Three parts rave, two parts bourgeois museum gathering and one part carnival.
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King of a Hundred Horsemen
As with much French poetry, the idée fixe of King of a Hundred Horsemen concerns the problematics of desire, and several of the passages are so euphonic in the original that quoting from the translation may lessen the overall effect…
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Investigations into Politics and Punk: The Photography of Mark Murrmann
I’ve just started walking with photographer Mark Murrmann down Polk Street in San Francisco, and already he’s busted out his camera and started snapping shots of a street construction project. For Murrmann, no scene is too mundane to make memorable.
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Straight Outta Nebraska
In Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.
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The Rumpus Original Combo: The Red Riding Trilogy
The Rumpus Review of the Red Riding Trilogy and a Conversation with Directors Julian Jarrold and James Marsh The Red Riding Trilogy, which recently opened in U.S. theatres, is both mesmerizing to watch and haunting to remember.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #28
BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Blockbuster Video.
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FUNNY WOMEN #19: Anaïs Nin’s Hot Cross Buns
INGREDIENTS: A 200-year-old stone farmhouse in which every room is painted a different color, and the maid opens the shutters at dawn.