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No Love Lost: Damien Hirst Faces the Old Masters

  • Claire Cameron
  • November 20, 2009
At the end of his exhibit, I came across a guide called, “Damien Hirst’s Wallace Collection Trail,” containing short, chatty write-ups on twenty-six works in the permanent collection that have…
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A Future Always Pure and Perfect and Remote

  • Emma Garman
  • November 19, 2009
Jon Stephen Fink’s novel A Storm in the Blood imagines the lives of Jews, anti-Tsarists, and revolutionaries in London’s East End.
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FUNNY WOMEN #7: In Retrospect, Dating That Speed Freak Wasn’t All That Bad, Comparatively

  • Kathleen Alcott
  • November 19, 2009
God, he was smart! He had a mind like a hummingbird, he had read every book there was to read, his tongue was sharp, he was funnier than anyone else at the party.
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Monster Girl: The Rumpus Interview with Chelsea Martin

  • John Madera
  • November 19, 2009
“The second and fourth parts of that sentence came directly from life, but the first and third parts came from some thoughts I had while watching a movie, and the…
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Salvage Artist: The Rumpus Original Combo with Bonnie Jo Campbell

  • Stacy Muszynski
  • November 18, 2009
“I like to go where the life is.  I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.  I’m of the people in…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #10

  • Ted Wilson
  • November 17, 2009
THE FOR SALE SIGN PLACED IN MY YARD ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert McKee

  • Sheila Heti
  • November 17, 2009
Robert McKee is best known to the world in two ways: as the guy who teaches the popular STORY seminar in Los Angeles and around the world to would-be screenwriters,…
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The Hurricane and the War

  • Leah Carroll
  • November 16, 2009
A new book about a soldier who murdered his girlfriend examines the similar traumas of combat veterans and Katrina survivors.
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A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster

  • Juliet Linderman
  • November 16, 2009
I don’t know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn’t have to.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #17: Higher Love

  • Rick Moody
  • November 14, 2009
Recently, I was given an assignment by Rumpus film critic and friend Ryan Boudinot to write about one of those pieces of music that is so execrable, so thoroughly gangrenous,…
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Accomplices in Her Accomplishment

  • Dawn Trook
  • November 13, 2009
As much as Intruder makes us look at the difficult, the painful, the ugly, it also gives us a chance to watch the insides of a snow globe swirl, to…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #7: Sartre, You’re Such an Asshole

  • Steve Almond
  • November 13, 2009
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Sartre, You’re Such an Asshole You thought your derriere off, no beef there. But your heart: was it missing a…
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