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The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic on the Danube

Sasa Stanisic was born in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina and lived there until 1992, at which point his family fled the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. He currently resides in Germany.…

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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #20: Fumble Recovery

What was the best play made by a wide receiver during last weekend’s NFL playoff games? Hint: it wasn’t a touchdown catch. Last Saturday night, during the Indianapolis Colts-Baltimore Ravens matchup, Colts…

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Fucking and Writing: The Rumpus Conversation with Jami Attenberg

“Perhaps we should talk about fucking. Fucking and writing, fucking and talking, fucking and thinking, fucking and whatever else it is that fucking goes with…”

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Swinging Modern Sounds #19: One Recent Example of Talent

“Talent” is from the Greek for a certain weight of gold, because, I suppose, people who had a lot of it seemed to be metaphorically wealthy. Here’s one example I…

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The Divot

(A review of A Common Pornography in the style of A Common Pornography, by Kevin Sampsell) This friend of mine, Justin, loaned a book to me. It was titled A…

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The Sports Talk Radio Election

Okay, so lots of confusion and grief and gnashing of teeth out there over why my adopted state, Massachusetts, just elected a Republican nudie model to fill the seat once…

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A Kidnapping in Haiti

“In a few weeks, the international media will leave the country, and Americans will be free to forget about Haiti once again. It is my hope that this story will…

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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem

"I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working."

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The Eyeball #31: The Baader Meinhof Complex

On New Year’s Day this year I removed all the bookmarks from my Firefox bookmarks bar. When I mentioned to a couple friends that my resolution was to lay off…

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #19

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Holy Shit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Fucking Cool

“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.”

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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #12: Riptide

(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Riptide Because we are men of a certain age without visible boundaries or excuses we ignore the yellow flap of…

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