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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Marcy Campbell
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Marcy Campbell! Here’s an excerpt: I got my master’s when I discovered that the university was actually going to pay me to read, which is how I saw it. I like reading,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is how Margaret Atwood turns down blurb requests. Maybe we’ve been misinterpreting Beowulf for 200 years. Maybe a lot of things. NASAgifs is your tumblr for the whatever. The cosplayer at home. Way to have depicted science’s first Asian…
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The Wild Thing With People Feet Was My Favorite
The one with people feet, I thought, had once been human, but had changed. He grew wild. Everyone grew wild at times…
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Jerry Stahl & Marc Maron in one room!
Los Angeles! Comes see Rumpus columnist Jerry Stahl and Marc Maron at The Last Bookstore this Friday, November 8th at 7:30 PM. Jerry will be reading from his latest book, Happy Mutant Baby Pills and Marc will be reading from…
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Writers and Their Day Jobs
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread…” In an interview with The Atlantic, poet Amy Woolard discusses her double life as a writer…
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New Comic on Life in SF
Rumpus contributor Jon Adams has a new comic Just Add Money in Bold Italic! His work on Bold Italic focuses on life in San Francisco! Read his other comic Ah, San Francisco, which illustrates a current dilemma.
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Lisa’s Book Round-Up
I wouldn’t be much of a book columnist if I didn’t celebrate Alice Munro and her much deserved Nobel Prize for Literature. It surprises me, the number of people who have never read Munro. If you’re one of them, you…
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Learning How to Write
“The Apparent Author,” Meriç Algün Ringborg’s latest exhibition in Istanbul’s Gallery NON, presents a sound installation of an author talking about “her artistic goals, ambitions, and potentials,” as Rumpus contributor Kaya Genc writes in The Paris Review. Genc makes a…
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Beautifully Disturbing
“Thank you. I love when people write “disturbing” in reference to my work. “Beautifully disturbing”? Even better.” In the newest issue of Specter Magazine, Kameelah Rasheed interviews Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz! The two talk about her two forthcoming book releases,…
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Do you want to write or do you want to be a writer?
“Maybe you write because you’re lonesome. You might stop once you fall in love. Remember we’re each just a self and the page is always there. Maybe you write because you have a story to tell. I can’t imagine the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us now praise famous modern airport architecture. Here are some psychedelic Spanish pharmaceutical ads. A dust avalanche ON MARS. Hey you know what, science pretty much backs large soda bans. And what of the burgeoning ashes in space industry?
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The 52/52 Project: Detours off the Cul-de-sac
When I chose belly dancing classes as the first of my fifty-two new experiences in the year I would turn fifty-two, I knew looking sexy was a long shot.