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Are You a Romantic? Friday Book Club Round-Up
Roxane Gay examines Lidia Yuknavitch‘s Chronology of Water, the current Rumpus Book Club selection. Her review is organized into handy sections, and she ends with an affirmative: “I will just say I fucking loved this book and I strongly encourage…
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A Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Update
I’m not going to try to bring you breaking news on this story–the situation is too fluid, and you don’t come to The Rumpus for that sort of story anyway, at least I don’t think you do. Instead I’m going…
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Whole Foods, Empty ‘Hood
“My first thoughts when I saw the solar-powered Whole Foods sign go up in my neighborhood were: My life just got a million times better. The convenience! The consistent quality! The $11 half-pint of curried chicken salad! My second thought?…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert day 2: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? Oh hello, giant Russian underwater cave. This week in retro-future: the robot-filled year 2000. Did you guys see the most beautiful truck crash ever?…
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On Law, Zines and Trans Politics
“. . .there has been widescale attacks on social movements over the last thirty or forty years in response to the very meaningful social movements in the sixties and seventies that had very transformative demands, that were seeking a redistribution…
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Life with Susan Sontag
In the 1970s, writer Sigrid Nunez moved in with her boyfriend and his mother. She hovered over the couple, critiqued their sex life, had an endless parade of house guests, and chided Nunez for not being more of a people-person.…
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Respond to the Times Article
If after reading “The Careless Languages of Sexual Violence,” a Rumpus Original essay by Roxane Gay, you want to share your response directly with the New York Times, considering submitting a letter to the editor or op-ed.
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The Latest from Wisconsin
If you scan the front pages of major news websites this morning, you might not know that anything happened in Wisconsin last night. The MSNBC website has a small piece low on the right column titled “Wis. Senate OKs anti-union…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? The Gatsby house may soon be no more. There is a lot I could say about these pictures of Milan, but basically it just comes down…