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My Favorite Clause: Ruminations on Stuart Dybek’s Penis

  • Adam Wilson
  • August 10, 2009
“Sauerkraut Soup” from Stuart Dybek’s 1986 debut collection Childhood and Other Neighborhoods begins with a narrator waxing philosophical on the cathartic nature of bodily purge. “Puking felt like crying,” he…
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Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: The Rumpus Interview With Nancy Balbirer

  • Rachel Kramer Bussel
  • August 9, 2009
Nancy Balbirer’s hilarious, soulful memoir about acting, Hollywood, art, fame, and misguided relationships, Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: A Memoir Of Near-Fame Experiences is told from the perspective of…
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Sex, Drugs, and Orchestra: The Importance of Metal Health and the New Iron Maiden Documentary

  • Nicole Pasulka
  • August 7, 2009
The Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn is papered with horror movie posters and painted with a fine layer of filmy grit. A mutilated Chuckie doll straddles a Jaegermeister spout from…
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The Fog of War

  • Aaron Gwyn
  • August 7, 2009
Robert Olmstead’s new novel demonstrates Robert E. Lee’s maxim: “It is well that war is so horrible, or we would grow to love it too much.”
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Rumpus Interview With Rebecca Solnit

  • Padma Viswanathan
  • August 7, 2009
To read one of [Solnit's] books is to slap your forehead and say, “How could I, and everyone else, have missed this?”
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Genre Trap

  • Matt McGregor
  • August 6, 2009
Spanish author Javier Calvo’s novel critiques pop culture by embracing its stereotypes
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Searching the Library of Babel

  • Grant Munroe
  • August 6, 2009
About six months ago, as I was nearing the end of Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions, I came across the chapter titled “Prologues to The Library of Babel.” The chapter…
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The Wind Has Stopped Blowing (Your Pockets Are Filled With Wind)

  • Jesse Nathan
  • August 5, 2009
It’s April and I’m back home for Passover and Easter and my brother’s birthday. I’m wandering my parents’ farm. The air is cold and I expected warm, the trees are…
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Douglas Rushkoff and Life, Inc.

  • Richard Meyers
  • August 4, 2009
“For me, the idea of selling out was the worst possible thing,” says Douglas Rushkoff during a discussion with friend and fellow writer Walter Kirn one recent evening at an…
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“Trouble on the way, and great joy”

  • Virginia Konchan
  • August 4, 2009
In a place where names are lost like household objects, and white noise supplants meaningful distinctions between voices and people, why the need for singularity (or personhood) at all?
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“And Then at the Boat Show,” a Rumpus Original Poem by John Gallaher

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  • August 4, 2009
And Then at the Boat Show It is true, I feel, that I don’t think about plants as much as I should. Day after day, the explanation unfolds, at just…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #20

  • Sugar
  • August 4, 2009
Don’t turn necking into a loyalty test.
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