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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…
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Dip Your Toe In Chelsea Creek
Ella snorted a last bit of smoke from her nose, like a dragon, and flung her butt in the creek. “That’s not a job, Soph. That’s slavery. There are child labor laws. I bet you could call social services on…
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Female Critics on Women and Criticism
Attention, New York readers who love literary criticism and women and literary criticism by women: come to SHARP: A Discussion of Women and Criticism tomorrow night at 7:00 at the Bookstore Cafe! The event will feature female critics, including Rumpus…
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The Internet is Good
If you haven’t heard already, tech writer Paul Miller is back on the internet after a year of WWW celibacy. In his conclusive journal entry on The Verge, he’s not waxing ecstatic on the virtues of being wireless, but instead…
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Talk About “By the Numbers”
Bowling scenes tend to pop up in films that fizzle, Mr. Bruzzese, 39, continued. Therefore it is statistically unwise to include one in your script. “A cursed superhero never sells as well as a guardian superhero,” one like Superman who…
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Five Reasons to Kiss My Gynecologist
My gynecologist makes me feel like the complex whole I am. He makes me feel both normal and unique, recognizes that my body and my emotions are inextricably connected.