Rumpus Original
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The Wild Thing With People Feet Was My Favorite
The one with people feet, I thought, had once been human, but had changed. He grew wild. Everyone grew wild at times…
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg
Writer Laura van den Berg talks about her newest collection, The Isle of Youth, being drawn to locations “with a potential for magic and strangeness,” and how to create a continuous dream for the reader.
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The Rumpus Review of All Is Lost
From the start, All Is Lost understands what makes the survival genre great: an uncompromising dedication to what happens on the screen and a refusal to linger over why it happens or what it means.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #206
INSTAGRAM ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Instagram.
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All Over Coffee #657 Collaboration with Susan Steinberg
She opened my hand; she flattened my fingers; she traced a line; and I thought of something; and I thought something else.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Through the Throat
“This past July, I stood over my father’s hospital bed and contemplated suffocating him with his pillow…”
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The Rumpus Interview with Eric Lundgren
Novelist Eric Lundgren talks about paying homage to your influences, inducing literary vertigo, the perfect details in film noir, and the Mall of America.
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The Last Book I Loved: nineties by Lucy Ives
Our parents showed up to retrieve us. They wanted to know why we would do such a thing. My friend and I looked at each other and just shrugged our shoulders.
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Fantasy Football For Poets: Week 9
“Okay, what would your children want me to do?” asked head trainer Paul Sparling. “Take care of daddy?”
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“This Is Just To Say I’m a Zombie” by David Hernandez
Happy Halloween from Rumpus Poetry, where we’re pleased to offer you this take on William Carlos Williams’s “This is just to say” by David Hernandez.
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The Rumpus Interview with Katy Butler
Journalist Katy Butler discusses her memoir, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A Path to a Better Way of Death, why medicine and technology often cloud the larger issues of dying, and how we should contemplate the end of our lives.
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HEAVY-HANDED: Shooting Star
Whenever I see a shooting star I think I have to make a wish but the first thing I think is always, “I wish I were dead!”