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THE BLURB #16: Hungrier, More Successful, a Bit Ruthless

A review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive that veers off into some really important and complicated and basically unanswerable questions about literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century life.

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Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving

“Amnesia had long streaming hair bleached to a dazzling white and was always clad in black. Flying through the air she seemed like a Valkyrie warrior plunging down from Valhalla.”

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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life #2

How Dave Grohl Taught Me to Stop Whining and (Against Every Known Impulse in My Body) Embrace Happiness

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I Know Why the Caged Bear Sings

A collection of stories from a Romanian-American writer, nominated for a Northern California Book Award, juxtaposes stories from the old country and the new.

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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #34: Are You My Mother?

You might lose your heart, honey, but you’ll keep your hat.

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The End of Major Combat Operations

An excerpt from Nick McDonell’s first book of nonfiction, The End of Major Combat Operations, published by McSweeney’s.

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The Rumpus Interview with Forrest Gander

“As a writer, I’m interested in trying to get to the complexity of experience. For me, that has led—in poetry—to counterpoint, polyrhythms, and clausal layering.”

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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #24: Jenna Jameson’s Father Dials 911

The porn star Jenna Jameson, now a 36-year-old mother of 13-month-old twins, was never trained to hit anybody or to defend herself from being hit. Her boyfriend Tito Ortiz, a…

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10/40/70 #5: Cure

This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…

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Disinclined to Mislead Anyone

Lantz forces us again and again to reexamine the way we see through such juxtaposition of facts as well as through the voices of characters who search for and experience…

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Lightning Strikes Twice: The Rumpus Interview with Nick Lantz

How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!

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Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #3: The Space Between

WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS…AND DRAW Flight Attendant Montine McLeod (Academy Awarded nominated Melissa Leo) finds herself the unlikely guardian of Omar (Anthony Keyvan), a Pakistani boy…

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