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Happy Audio Book Month
Did you know that it’s Audio Book Month? I’m going to guess you didn’t. It’s hard for me to imagine too many Rumpus readers habitually listening to books read aloud by other people, usually not the people who wrote the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Miller
For Jennifer Miller’s 32nd birthday, her mother gave her a 1957 issue of Time Magazine featuring the suave and clean-shaven journalism legend, Edward R. Murrow.
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Sunday Rumpus Serialization: Your Life in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (#2)
The debut Sunday Rumpus serialization continues with Rob Roberge’s wild ride through memory, identity, sex, trauma, music, addiction, love and loss.
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A Saturday Rumpus Advisory About the E-book Antitrust Lawsuit
Monday is the deadline for the public to comment on the settlements in the antitrust lawsuit the Department of Justice brought against several publishers, and Apple, for colluding against Amazon.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Deni Béchard
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Deni Béchard about his book Cures for Hunger, the complexities of memoir and fiction, and the difference between traditional French and Quebecois.
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What If Wheelchair Racing Were Just Another Sport?
My friends call me an exercise tourist because I love running, biking, swimming, triathlons, skiing, pretty much physical activity of any kind, but last year I crossed a line.
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Radio Ambulante: This Latin American Life
We talked with author Daniel Alarcón about Radio Ambulante, a monthly Spanish-language radio program showcasing compelling human stories from around Latin America and the United States.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #42: The Miracle
A few weeks ago, I stayed in on a Friday night reading Hannah Arendt’s essay “What is Freedom?”
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The Rumpus Interview with Kelly Hogan
Never underestimate the value of knowing how to play well with others.
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What He Took
It’s two in the morning on the OB ward. Light filters into our dark room from the hallway, making a dim twilight around bassinet and bed. My first child, Emily, is twenty-seven hours old.
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The Rumpus Review of Excision
Equal parts polished camp and unmanufactured horror, Excision is a film that made me hate both it and myself while huddling low in my seat and, at times, diverting my eyes. And yet I believe it is this generation’s Carrie.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Henkin
Joshua Henkin’s new, forceful novel, The World Without You, draws some of its power from this peculiar disconnect between the personal and the national.