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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…
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #1: “Henry Lee”
Now that Nick Cave Mondays have drawn to a close, the obvious next step is PJ Harvey Tuesdays.
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Government Shut Down Round-Up
This is the first federal government shut down in 17 years! Here is a break down in who goes to work and who stays home. Even if the shut down is resolved, whether or not to raise the debt ceiling…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The perpetually under construction Sagrada Familia is almost almost done, but you can see what it will look like TODAY. Here are some pointless diagrams for you. Let us now discuss Jim Henson’s proposed nightclub and other 60s oddities. Which…
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Getting Out of the Slush Pile
Want to get out of the slush pile and onto the pages of your favorite publications? Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn has some seriously wise words for you over at her Daily Dot column. One of the wisest bits comes from…
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“I Am One of Them”
Crossing Over, a documentary by director Isabel Castro, follows three transgender women—all of them undocumented Mexican immigrants—as they seek asylum in the US. “Although this started as a project to raise awareness about the complexities of immigration,” Castro told Buzzfeed,…
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Literary Geniuses Say Some Not-So-Genius Things
In “honor” of David Gilmour’s comments to a Hazlitt interviewer about how he refused to teach books by female authors, Rumpus contributor Michelle Dean rounded up some other literary men’s contributions to the field of misogyny. From Hemingway blaming all men’s…
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The Power of Negative Reviews
Lee Siegel, author of two collections of criticism, confesses that for years, he earned a living writing negative book reviews. His piece, “Burying the Hatchet: The Death of the Negative Book Review,” describes the negative review as one that implies…