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Guns and the American
A gun is a mechanical device used to punch holes in people and other animals in order to kill them. I list humans first since “anti-personnel” weapons, as military firearms are euphemized by governments and the gun industry, comprise the…
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REELINGS #2: Meek’s Cutoff
The skillfully understated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt joins up again with screenwriter Jon Raymond to give us Meek’s Cutoff.
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Where I’ve Laid My Head
I have slept in 26 locations in the last seven months. This was never my intention, this peripatetic life, but looking back now at the age of 40, I can finally see I have been doing it for decades.
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The Rumpus Review of Searching for Sugar Man
Fast-forward all the way to the epilogue: a 2012 documentary, Searching for Sugar Man. The film is the story of what happened to Rodriguez’s music after his ostensible failures.
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The Friendship Contract
She paid for the rose, took it from me and placed it carefully on the ground in front of the cart. Smiling faintly, she ground the flower into the concrete, smashing it hard with the thick heel of her black…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #150
ISAAC FITZGERALD ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Isaac Fitzgerald.
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The Rumpus Interview with Davy Rothbart
Somehow I had missed that Davy Rothbart, the creator of FOUND Magazine, was also a short story writer, essayist, and documentary filmmaker.
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Sunday Rumpus Essay: Knocked Over: On Biology, Magical Thinking, and Choice
Forty-four, single and accidentally pregnant. Before Martha Bayne can even decide whether this is a dream or a nightmare, the realities of insurance, economics and government legislature over women’s bodies kick in.
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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: BETH ORTON’S CENTRAL RESERVATION
A few years ago, a friend was attempting to explain why he was divorcing his wife. He said they had grown apart. That they argued all the time.
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Talks with Teachers #3: Imprisoned Education
Chaska Conrow, who taught at a charter school that operates inside San Francisco County jails, discusses the myths and realities of teaching behind bars.
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The Week in Greed #12: Who Let the Dog Whistles Out?
The goal isn’t just to rile white voters up, but to make them feel that their own racist impulses are merely reasonable responses to a culture stacked against them.
