Rumpus Original
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #7: How To Be a Girl: Courtney Trouble’s Subversive Smut
Courtney Trouble’s no pedestrian pornographer. She’s a pale, femme, riot girl with squiggly tattoos and rocker bangs.
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Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Amy Bloom’s characters are glorious, endearing wrecks—vain, horny, bullheaded, and brave. They resemble everyone we’ve ever known intimately.
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Columns #19: Call Me By Your Game
When I need a haircut, I go to a barbershop run by a pair of balding Italian brothers in Park Slope, Brooklyn. My hair is thin enough now that I’m no longer sure how often I should have it trimmed;…
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The Rumpus Review of The White Ribbon
Haneke breathes an unholy life into the generation of children who would grow up to become the obedient soldiers and members of the Nazi party, indirectly asking: What was the genesis of, and who is accountable for, this morally corrupt…
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Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block
I’m not sure what feminist nomenclature Katie Roiphe would assign herself, but I can’t fathom why she would choose to “assign primacy” to The Man.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #17
THAT PICTURE FRAME MODEL ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing that picture frame model.
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The Rumpus Interview with Thomas Doyle
When we were young, many of us built shoebox dioramas depicting scenes from a book, or an historical event. Artist Thomas Doyle did too, but whereas most of us abandoned those scene-setting projects when we were young, he still makes…
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Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #11: Michael Jordan Chews Gum
(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Michael Jordan Chews Gum Substantially harder than you or me a clamping motion that knots the muscles of his already severely toned presagital ridge and speaks to some higher form…
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Reading in the New Year
Rumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade.
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FUNNY WOMEN #11: The Emily Post Guide to Beheadings
It happens in all our lives. We put down our golf clubs to peruse the mail that the butler has brought on a silver tray, when we discover an invitation to a beheading. Naturally, our minds turn to deeper thoughts:…
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Wry Humor, Dark Wisdom, Lissome Women, Cigarettes
I think French film entices me because I know so little about French language and culture; it suggests an as-yet-unexplored world of magical, incomprehensible people.
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2009: The Year in Music
January: Kimya Dawson, Remember That I Love You (2006) One route on the Metro-North railroad begins in New Haven and ends at Grand Central Station in New York City.