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“First of all, I can stop competing with Jonathan Franzen”
We love our Funny Women, and Jezebel does, too! They’ve republished Elissa Bassist’s satire, “Writing the Next Great American Woman’s Novel.” But you saw it here first.
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The Golden Age of GIFs
“I mean, surely not every human emotion can be rendered in a few dozen repeated, low-resolution images. And yet…” Recently, A.D. Jameson asked the question “Are Animated GIFs a Type of Cinema?” Landon Palmer continued the conversation, and now even…
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Unexpected Poetry
What if, instead of crude, crass graffiti, walls were painted with poetry? This reality has already started in Camden, New Jersey where words from Sonia Sanchez’s poem “Ballad” were printed on the face of a rundown, boarded up building. On…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Some good news: Disney isn’t going to trademark Dia de los Muertos after all. Wired worms its way farther into my heart via a list of recent awesome dinosaur discoveries. Vintage science ads huzzah! Peter Lipton photographs endangered and soon…
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Improvising a Bone Graft
Very gradually, this frantic activity ceased to be simply an expression of emotional distress—what the grief experts call “searching behaviour”—and started evolving into a digital, extended elegiac project.
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Zombie Authors: Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood
At The Barnes and Nobel Review, Maud Newton interviews Naomi Alderman, winner of the Orange Award for New Writers and co-writer with Margaret Atwood of The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home, a recently published e-novel only available on Watt. Newton and…
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Readers Report: Misery Loves Company
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Misery Loves Company.”
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Thanks, Page Turner!
Today, The New Yorker Page Turner blog highlighted Abigail Welhouse’s Rumpus interview with Luis Negrón! Thanks, The New Yorker! We love you back!
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Cabbie Poetry
“Tip the waitress or barman well, ‘cause you’re going to need their toilet.” Taxi drivers made strides this year at the PEN World Voices Festival. For a handful of weeks, a group of long-standing New York City taxi drivers have…
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Rock Out with Dan Weiss’s The Yellow Dress
If you enjoy the coffee Dan Weiss brews every morning, you should hear the music he makes by night. His band, longtime Rumpus favorites The Yellow Dress, are playing an album-preview show tonight at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, along with…
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Help Keep Art in Oakland Alive
Oakland art gallery MOCO, a vital and exciting venue for visual and performing art outside the mainstream, turned one last Sunday. Unfortunately, there was no celebration: a few days earlier, the gallery’s owner, Eli Reyes, was the victim of a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What’s it like sailing a top the Arctic? What’s it like, swimming below the Arctic? Our solar system is actually pretty weird. Unwanted moles are basically the best archaeologists. Now let’s all take a moment to appreciate how totally great…