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In Defense of the Cheap Seats

  • Jacob Loup
  • March 2, 2012
It works like this. You tell the kid at the ticket counter you want to see J. Edgar at 7:30. He asks if you’d like regular or VIP seating.
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A Flower Too Often Smelt Will Wilt

  • Spencer Hendrixson
  • March 2, 2012
This is a hybrid book that chronicles the real journey and imagines the surreal journey of Lewis and Clark, from watching a baseball game with President Jefferson and Ozzie Smith,…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Aase Berg, Johannes Göransson and Garth Graeper

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  • March 2, 2012
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aase Berg and translator Johannes Göransson about the poetry collection Transfer Fat. We are also joined this month by Garth Graeper of Ugly…
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The Rumpus Interview with Carl Adamshick

  • Lisa Wells
  • March 1, 2012
[Adamshick's] disinterest in self-promotion is plain, and the interview should be read with his tone in mind: wary, self-depreciating, somewhat amused.
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“The Mathematician,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Carl Adamshick

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  • March 1, 2012
The Mathematician She’s taken to sleeping late. Only recently have I come to stare on her as phenomenon.
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The Faster I Walk

  • Claudette Bakhtiar
  • March 1, 2012
With a poignant sadness, a young Norwegian writer, Kjersti A. Skomsvold, tells the story of a lonely dying woman in her debut The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am.
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The Rumpus Interview with Cassie Jaye

  • Darrah De Jour
  • March 1, 2012
Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye landed the Best Documentary Award at Cannes Film Festival for her film, Daddy I Do in 2010 — about the controversial religious ceremony Purity Balls, where…
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps

  • David L. Ulin
  • March 1, 2012
A new collection of music criticism from renowned critic, Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music, is equal parts service journalism and cultural commentary.
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The Rumpus Review of Rampart

  • Niki Cruz
  • February 29, 2012
If we can take away one thing from history it’s that it often repeats itself. The Kent State massacre in 1970 was one of the first instances where the media…
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“In the Pink,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Maureen Thorson

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  • February 29, 2012
In the Pink I walk the beach by the Tickle Inn and I know that breakups suck.
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Thumbs In, Fingers Splayed

  • Matthew Zingg
  • February 29, 2012
Throughout the collection, the speaker in these poems is constantly aware of this contradiction, the intersection between life and art, perhaps frighteningly so, seeking solace in “these few things left,”…
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SELF-MADE MAN #2: Old Stories

  • Thomas Page McBee
  • February 29, 2012
Look, it’s an old story, masculinity; usually discussed in terms of brutality and honor, power and powerlessness, and occasionally a highlighting of the tender underbelly that rises up no matter…
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