Rumpus Original
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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: BOB DYLAN’S BLONDE ON BLONDE
The album was the warm yellow window of someone else’s house as you walk by on a cold night. Listening to it was the feeling you get when you look into this stranger’s window and wish you lived there.
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Admit You’ve Paid For It: The Savage Honesty of David Henry Sterry
Writer, performer, educator, and activist David Henry Sterry talks about the deep cultural roots of shame associated with the American sex industry, and how freeing it can be to bleed out the truth about our lives as buyers and sellers…
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Annie M. Sprinkle
Being a whore was great preparation for being an artist.
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On Loitering
In Charles Moore’s iconic black-and-white photograph, Coretta looks on stoically, lips parted, hands clasped in front as her husband, Martin Luther King, has his right arm bent behind his back by a police officer in a tall hat.
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Women Are Bitches
“Women are bitches,” says a young man as he sits down. Apparently a woman at the bar wouldn’t give him her number.
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ALBUM #5, AUDIO PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT WORK: Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag first achieved recognition in her teens, when she began writing the autobiographical comic books Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise
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Why I Chose Gregory Orr’s River Inside the River for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
But grace is what I found in River Inside the River. Grace in abundance.
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A Zealot and a Poet
I like to imagine him out there on his beast of burden, vast grey country on all sides and a book of poetry open in his hand. It is a romantic image and, when I think only of it, I…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sandra Bernhard
In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she’ll be performing this week.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #182
MOTHER’S DAY 2013 ★★★★★ (0 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mother’s Day 2013.
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Hold On to What You’ve Got
It feels like we created each other from scratch, scribbling in the details and watching ourselves take shape.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Emily Rapp
A day of celebration for many, Mother’s Day is a more complex holiday for people who have lost their mothers–or their children.