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The Most Terrifying Art Project in the World
Here’s a totally normal thing that exists: a lake with a pH so far to the base end of the scale that when birds crash-land in it, they not only die but also calcify. Of course, like any everyday person…
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Five
Being unable to play his favorite instrument anymore broke his heart, but while his injured hand couldn’t perform the delicate gesticulations of a violinist, it was not a hindrance in the blunt-force job of offensive lineman.
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Put A Strange Object in Your Earholes
Did you like the super hot prof-on-student word sex between Steve Almond and Kelly Luce from a few days ago? Then you might also enjoy words from Callie Collins and Jill Meyers, the cofounders of the press that published Luce’s…
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Breaking Down Sentences and Style via Gordon Lish
If you think of Gordon Lish, now best known for editing Raymond Carver’s work, as an “eccentric editor; tyrannical teacher; notorious provocateur,” you may need to take a second look. In a roundtable for the Center for Fiction’s Literarian, David Winters, Greg…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Now we can map the weather on planets outside our solar system (well, one). “The mummy everyone forgot was real.” Here’s your Harlem Renaissance book design for the day. On the greenbelt towns of the New Deal. Perhaps you have…
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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…