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Thanks, Jezebel!
Jezebel gave love to Timothy Leo Taranto’s visual puns of literary greats. We love you back!
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… A fountain that thinks it’s a printer. Phoebe Chung has portrait lighting gone wild. Your emotions should know these words. Carl Sagan takes you there.
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The Violence of Mexican Drug Cartels
A bitterly violent war against Mexican Drug Cartels wages on across the U.S. border. Tens of thousands are being murdered, and over a million are being forced to flee their homes. U.S. laws and policy play a major role in the…
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“A miracle is just an accident, with fancy trappings”
Happy Birthday, Susan Sontag. You would have been 80 today. Here is an entry from her collection of journals and notebooks, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh. Also, check out Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton and Maria Popova’s fantastic collaborative illustration,…
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The New Young Folk Singer You’re Gonna Want to Hear
It may have taken Jessica Pratt five years to get her debut album released after she recorded it, but judging by the well-deserved welcome mat critics are rolling out for her, it may have been worth the wait. SF Weekly‘s…
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The Right to Bear Tacos
What would you do if you happened to witness a car crash that injured no humans but mortally wounded a black bear? If you’re Jackson Landers, you finish the bear off with a hunting knife (!), skin it (!!), and…
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When Fiction Won’t Let You Lie to Yourself
Why do we incorporate our personal lives into works of fiction? And how do we know when to stop? In a post for the New York Times‘s “Draft” series, “about the art and craft of writing,” Rumpus columnist Peter Orner recalls…
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Scout’s Honor!
Joshua Mohr has released a book trailer for his forthcoming novel, Fight Song. (It was filmed here at The Rumpus offices!) You can read the Rumpus interview between Mohr and Michelle Haimoff, and mark your calendars for his novel-based performance at City Lights Bookstore on…
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Intimate Writer Portraits
At Imprint, check out Joshua Landsman’s “Writers I Have Loved” project, where he has illustrated a variety of authors in a beautiful diary format. Each drawing is accompanied by a plethora of witty anecdotal notes, so even if you don’t…
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“Migration is beautiful, and it is inevitable”
Oakland artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez is the narrator of the new video series Migration Is Beautiful. The films feature artists and advocates and their plights in fighting for the dignity and rights of immigrants. Rodriguez not only focuses on the…
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Better Living through Storytelling
One of the hardest parts of developing artificial intelligence, writes Frank Bures for Poets & Writers, is trying to teach computers causality: how and why one thing follows from another. Humans don’t have to be taught: We see causality constantly, incessantly,…
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Literary Happy Meals
In England, young McDonald’s customers will no longer be receiving toys with their Happy Meals. Instead, they will be bestowed with books! McDonald’s is working in conjunction with the National Literacy Trust to ensure that 15 million books will be…