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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“Russian space zoo” is my new favorite phrase of all time. Happy End let’s you look at pictures of plane crashes without the guilt of morbidity. I imagine you’d like to explore the new 100 bills. Scouting NY revisits the…
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Dear Wikipedia Editors,
Not all of you, just the ones who decided that it was a good idea to start removing women from the category “American Novelists” and putting them into a new category: “American Women Novelists.” You guys. What the hell, man?…
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Happy Birthday, Longreads!
Longreads just celebrated its fourth birthday. Check out their rundown of frequent #longreads contributors and recommendations. And then do some reading to celebrate!
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2nd Person Narrative Is On The Scene!
It’s rare to see the “you” perspective thriving in the literary sphere, but Kjerstin Johnson’s Doug Fir Fiction Award winning “Employee Discounts: A Post College Job at Barnes and Noble” and Ashley Chamber’s “You Will Make Several Relaxing Cuts” are…
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Deep Throat #3: On Being and Unbeing A Singer
It would be easy and satisfying to say that I stopped singing because of the crack in my throat. It would be false. It’s true enough that there was one. There was a fight with a lover that turned ugly,…
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Women Writers and the Interview
Are male and female writers interviewed equally? Loraine Berry at Talking Writing thinks not. It’s gone to show that interviewers are often more interested in a female writer’s dietary habits and marital problems than their literary processes and work. Jodi…
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“Living On Air”
Via the Poetry Foundation, Open Culture has a 23-minute experimental film by Sandra Lahire using audio of Sylvia Plath reading her poems aloud. Mixing images of Plath’s obsessions (ouija boards, horses, violent self-harm) with photographs of the poet and her work,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“Curtis also suggested Dutschke may have become jealous of him when they studied taekwondo together or because of his successful career as an Elvis impersonator.” The ricin mailing case is getting more and more fascinating by the minute. Good news!…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Seth Fischer
The next Letter in the Mail, going out April 30, is from Seth Fischer! Seth is a Rumpus contributor and former editor as well as the founding editor of The Splinter Generation. His writing has appeared in publications like Pank and Guernica. “Notes from a…
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Best Essays Anthology to Feature Rumpus Writers
Awesome news! Megan Stielstra’s Rumpus essay “Channel B” will appear in The Best American Essays 2013, guest edited by our very own Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar). Seth Fischer’s “Notes from a Unicorn” will be listed as a notable essay. Congratulations…
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Radicalism 101
Via The Millions, radical publishing house Verso Books has put together a comprehensive undergraduate reading list. Running the gamut from Marx to Badiou, from Women’s Oppression Today to Racecraft, this collection of titles will interest anyone looking to learn more about the fundamentals…
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Organist Rocks Out
If you’re not already listening to the Believer’s new podcast, the Organist, don’t worry—there’s still time to catch up! The third episode, posted earlier this month, swings from hillbilly records to classic horror movies, hitting everything in between. It’s worth a…