Rumpus Original
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The Personal is Political
Narrated by young Nuri, Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, tells of a father abducted by a corrupt regime—a story that closely resembles Matar’s own life.
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Jennifer Close
Keep your eye on this one, I said. As so often happens when I say this, Jennifer is now more famous than I am.
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Baffled, Bursting, and Barely Contained
A collection of flash fiction from five authors, They Could No Longer Contain Themselves unites distinct, compelling voices into one bursting collection.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #99
EYEBALLS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing eyeballs.
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No End In Sight: Industrial Icons “Front Line Assembly” Continue Their Assault
I’m inside of a cavernous nightclub, flanked by a packed bar that’s humming with anticipatory commotion.
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The Rumpus Interview with Caitlin Horrocks
“I like to show my class a Top Chef episode where the contestants are supposed to make something interesting out of potatoes, like sweet potato ice cream. I try to talk about vampires that way: there’s nothing wrong with comfort…
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The Rumpus Interview with Adam Ross
Traces of Adam Ross’s life appear in the pages of his latest book of stories, Ladies and Gentlemen. There’s the teenage boy attending Trinity School in Manhattan, a journalist traveling to interview a famous actress, and an English professor who…
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Meanwhile, Musicians (Thao & Mirah on tour)
Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the life of touring musicians. …more
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The Dead Man’s Back Arches
The collection works as poetic biography and Whitmanesque dialogue, and this approach and its repetitions become irresistibly hypnotic.
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Albums of Our Lives: Gillian Welch’s Time (The Revelator)
I knew I was a pretender, too, knew it in all the ways a twenty-six-year-old can believe that she is broken and that nobody else can see how badly.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #82: The God of Doing it Anyway
I’m here not only to give you permission, but also to say that you must. There is no other way.
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The Rumpus Interview with David Jay, Star of the New Documentary, (A)Sexual
This is what I expected: Jay and I were meeting to talk about the one thing that is harder to talk about than sex: not wanting to have sex. Ever.