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When I see this video of eleven-year-old me, I burn inside. Maybe I should take it easy on myself, but I see a fumbling, painfully awkward girl supporting a politician whose influence still buttresses today’s anti-feminist conservatives

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The Rumpus Interview with Alexandra Kimball

Alexandra Kimball discusses a disheartening current reality: the economic ability to take one or more unpaid internships early in a journalism or writing career may be far more important than talent, insight, or work ethic.

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The Sweet Smell of Excess

Al-Anon sucked. If I hadn’t been too broke for therapy, I’d never have taken a friend’s advice to attend those awful meetings. They were worse than the AA meetings I’d…

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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE’S EVIL EMPIRE

We listened to the album straight through. When it finished I looked at my hands. I’d kept them balled tightly for all forty-five minutes.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #155

STEW ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing stew.

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The Rumpus Interview with Hans Weyandt

Hans Weyandt, editor of Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores, exemplifies the assertion that booksellers are "matchmakers at heart."

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Sexlife: One Word or Two?

Rumpus Sunday editor, Gina Frangello, asked her friend and former professor, Cris Mazza, what it felt like to write a memoir about her inorgasmia in publishing climate where confessional "tell-alls" usually interrogate--and often celebrate--sexual excess. Here is Cris' emotionally candid response, directed towards Gina...and towards you.

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On Being Average

The world is an asshole because it has given you not the best, but the good enough. The okay, that’s cool. The world has given you a pass. The world has given you a common face and a common name and a common story.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jensen Beach

In the following exchange, writer Jensen Beach discusses mad stats, organizing principles, Sweden, the Bay Area, benevolent lying, Biblical annotation, bighearted wickedness, and the Fatherly Moment.

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A Matter of Dignity

Certain constituencies are always shoved aside, always told their issues will be addressed at some nebulous point in the future. During a lengthy debate, to see these issues merit neither discussion nor debate speaks to how little dignity is valued on the political stage.

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The Rumpus Review of The Master

In Anderson’s hands, we are always on a journey into the troubled minds and hearts of men at war with themselves; to the intersection of primitive impulses and intellectual aspiration; and, never more than in The Master, through hubris, half-blind seeking, and love that destroys itself.

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