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Mein Führer, the Vegetarian
“Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him—that’s why he had fifteen girls taste the food before he ate it himself.” The Associate Press reports the story of ninety-five year old Margot Woelk. She was the only one of…
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Nick Cave Monday #33: “I’m Gonna Kill That Woman”
Have you ever been harassed by a bully? Someone who comes up to you on the school playground. And all you’re trying to do is eat your ice cream cone in peace. So the bully comes up to you and…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Check out these tasty Rumpus morsels, posted over the weekend! Wendy Ortiz interviews poet Louise Mathias about beauty, ecstasy, and eroticism…and “snakes and horses and sky and birds and hallucinogenic flowers, and stars, and the smell of creosote after rain,…
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Notable New York: 4/29-5/5
Monday 04/29: The PEN World Voices Festival is celebrating its ninth year and kicks off tonight with a reading titled Bravery. Hosted by comedian and author Baratunde Thurston, the reading will feature readings from “Najwan Darwish, ‘one of the 39…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Kokeshi matche are the cutest thing you will see today. Polish cold war neon (huzzah). Speaking of, hey remember that time we tried to weaponize the weather? wrapit-tapeit-walkit-placeit is you tumblr of the week. Welcome to 2013, where inmates review…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Spill
“There is a point at which mourners become weak. When they crack and spill. That is what I was waiting for.”
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Lit-Link Round-up
This Part Is About Me and My Friends So If You Don’t Give a Shit Scroll Down… So I was in Los Angeles for the Festival of Books. When I left Chicago, it was raining in this manic, endless way…
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Notable Los Angeles: 4/27-5/3
Saturday 4/27: RA Ralease Party features Jessica Ceballos, Vicky Deger, Scott Kuza, Anthony Miller, and Thomas Fraisse. RA is dedicated to creating new and original dialogue by providing a platform to promote the work of LA based visionaries. Free. 7…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Louise Mathias
I may have seemed in need of connection to Louise Mathias, when, upon meeting her, I gushed about what Joshua Tree meant to me. It’s true that I’m in need of connection, always, especially with poets, especially to places like…
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Links I Like
This afternoon, as I walked down York Boulevard, I was writing Links I Like in my head. I was thinking about a woman I love and how no one takes me seriously when I say I love her, and how…
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David Sedaris Writes Speeches for High Schoolers?
As strange as it might sound, according to an article in The Atlantic, American humorist David Sedaris included several vignettes in his new book Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. that he specifically wrote for high school speech competitions called “forensics.”…
