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“This is what strong families do in crisis: They adapt and roles change.”
Read this powerful essay by Tracy Clark-Flory about her mother’s battle with third stage lung cancer and her father’s attempt to maintain some level of normalcy during the Christmas holidays.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #34: Robert Tumas in Conversation with Brian, his BFF
When last we heard from Brian he had gotten work as a Xerox copier mechanic in his hometown of Rochester, New York. Robert Tumas’s latest conversation with his itinerant best friend finds Brian on the Island of San Clemente, off…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am very cold so lets all just watch this solar storm. What’s that? You don’t think the universe could be any more awesome? oh hey ICE VOLCANO. Here are some pretty cool bookstores that used to be other things.…
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Notable New York, This Week 12/14 – 12/19
This week in New York Rumpus Women take over!, New Yorker writer’s 20 Under 40 share their stories, Jonathan Ames and Justin Taylor are among writers who read from A Christmas Carol, J.D. Durkin pleads Stephen Colbert: Hire Me!, this…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: A Touch of Goth in Old New York’s Little Italy
When your mother-in-law pushes aside Elizabeth Street, the acclaimed novel by Laurie Fabiano, and says “She didn’t get it right,” it’s time to pull up a chair and listen. Christina Randazzo tells great stories that span decades but her most…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Take a look inside the Madagascar stone forest. Or not, it’s entirely up to you. Here are some more very old botanical drawings for you. Very important: sleepy bees are bad dancers. This week in Spanish public space design. Hold…
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Leaky Diplomacy
The river of diplomatic correspondence gushing forth from WikiLeaks is only the most recent incident in a long history of leaky diplomacy that began with the American Revolution. You might even say that the American Revolution was won with the…
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Rumpus Editor Stephen Elliott Gets 12 Minutes of Fame
Bossman Stephen Elliott on Live Wire Radio talking about The Rumpus, The Daily Rumpus emails, and The Adderall Diaries. Starts at the 34 minute mark.
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Ted Wilson reviews the World #65
GAYLE KING ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Gayle King.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Christmas is just around the corner, so look at this Spanish Santa vending machine robot. Your skin is the oldest thing about you. Philippe Jullian, connoisseur of the exotic. This is an article about tiny people being eaten by giant…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Next up for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club: Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. We’re hammering out the selections for the next three months right now, so stay tuned. There’s some fierce competition. Dean Young needs a heart transplant, and Tony…