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Two Literary Masters In One Place!
Hey Bay Area! Today’s Rumpus Contributor Peter Orner and Yiyun Li will meet to discuss writing and Orner’s second story collection, Last Car Over The Sagamore Bridge. The fantastic event is free and takes place tomorrow evening at Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts!
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Memorializing the Card Catalog
Sometimes it’s hard for a librarian to admit that we’ve arrived at the age of the virtual card catalog system. It’s a sentiment that’s especially true for Greenfield Community College librarian Hope Schneider who spent fourteen years sending out retired…
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Here’s a Tear-Jerker
Looking for a good, tear-jerking read? May we suggest Cris Beam’s essay “He’s Our Baby: What Happens When a Child is Placed in Foster Care.” Cris illustrates the complicated issues behind the temporary solution of foster care. The essay is…
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WEEKLY RUMPUS FICTION: NICOLE MATOS
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Nicole Matos! Here’s an excerpt:
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Megan Kaminski’s “Dear Sister”
Megan Kaminski’s poem “Dear Sister” is a piece meant for all of us who have siblings living far away. And it’s a piece for any of you who miss someone. Oh, yeah, it’s also a piece for any of you…
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The Lonely Voice #25: Winter in September, On Breece D’J Pancake
Stories fail if you only read them once. You’ve got to meet a story again and again, in different moods, at different eras of your life.
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Miranda July’s “We Think Alone” Project
Rumpus interviewee Miranda July is the queen of making the mundane more interesting than we ever imagined. In her project “We Think Alone,” July sends emails collected from the inboxes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Durham, and many others to readers…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey what’s with all the animal links Dan? News flash: mole rats are super weird! New flash: octopuses are also super weird! You are eating goo from a beaver’s butt. Behold the fishpond city. Animals turning to stone in a…
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Instead of Crossing
I believe it started with a slug and three hundred pellets leaving my uncle’s yard and ending their journey two trailers down.
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Micah Perks on Karen Joy Fowler
In her latest essay on Tin House, Rumpus contributor Micah Perks tells us why Karen Joy Fowler’s short story collection What I Didn’t See is more than worth the read. Fowler, who is best known as the author of The Jane…
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Alert: Your Dissertation Might Not Change the World
If you were lucky enough (cough, cough) to write a dissertation, you remember that during the first few months of the writing process you thought, “Man, I’m going to open everyone’s mind to [insert topic here],” but after way too many hours…
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Literary guts, literally
Harris Sockel writes with a defiant sense of wonder. He leaves behind arguments and agendas to marvel indiscriminately at iPhones, intestines, and human tenderness. In his world, technology has a soul and people are all too material, oozing and wet…