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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are in to being bummed out, you should probably read about what’s been happening to Harper Lee. I am sort of in love with this portable solar power outlet. This just in: Europeans are all about eating each…
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Multiplicity
As I held the passport in my hand, I realized that both marriage and gender have a life beyond my own. Somewhere, my citizenship gender had been on file. Somewhere, a record of me existed that over-ruled my daily existence.…
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Lit-Link Round-up
So I’m not sure anyone can dispute the fact that there’s no money in book review sections…if that were a genuine argument to be made, basically every book review section in every major paper but the New York Times wouldn’t…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ghost Lives
“Here’s what you do when that pile starts talking. You light a match. Light it all on fire and watch it burn with a combination of sadness and elation.”
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Links I Like
On Tuesday afternoon at a diner in Echo Park, I interviewed a writer and he told me a story, violent and personal. He told the story suddenly, while I was smiling. Are you serious? I said, which seems to be…
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Notable Los Angeles 5/4-5/10
Saturday 5/4: The Nuvein Foundation for Literature and the Arts presents Vision and Voices of the Valley II: The Cultural Landscape of L.A. Poetry. Hosted by Mike ‘The Poet’ Sonksen and featuring the poetry of Jessica Wilson, Kimberly Cobian, Traci…
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The Wind-Up [Marathon] Chronicle
Only once you’ve climbed the steep slope and emerged onto level ground do you begin to feel how much you’ve been hurting up till then. Haruki Murakami, author of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, who has…
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Sorry, Fellas, You’re Not That Funny
Plenty of people, from Christopher Hitchens to Adam Carolla, have made the assertion that women aren’t funny. You can probably guess that we at the Rumpus disagree, since we have a whole feature devoted to Funny Women (plus we live in…
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Academia’s Biggest Fraud Comes Clean
What happens when you put a well-regarded social psychologist fixated on order in an academic system that rewards breakthrough experiments over failed ones? You get one of the biggest con jobs in academic history. The New York Times Magazine profiles Diederik Stapel, whose…
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“I’m Black. And I’m Gay.”
More than a few people have questioned, chafed, and commented on Collins’ decision to identify himself as a black gay man — rather than simply as a gay man. And that’s where I step into the ring. At BuzzFeed, Saeed…
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THE LOVE SONG OF ISAAC FITZGERALD
For those of you who have never had the pleasure of meeting Isaac Fitzgerald, but have been avid readers of the Rumpus, what you should know is this:
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I generally try to stay pretty apolitical around here, but yeesh: 44 percent of republicans thing armed revolution may soon be necessary. io9 takes you inside early science labs (thanks). Views of Edo. You’ve been missed Bibliodyssey. The Awl looks…