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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh hey, Area 51 is a for real (not terribly alien-infested) place. As a bad movie connoisseur it’s pretty great hearing Jerry Lewis talk about “The Day the Clown Cried”. Isabella Rozendaal takes pictures of modern hunting culture. Perhaps you…
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Fanfiction Gathers Force
Ever since Fifty Shades of Grey, originally written with characters from Twilight as its protagonists, struck gold, the mainstream publishing world has had to take a closer look at fanfiction. In the (increasingly unlikely) event you’re unfamiliar with the world of fanfiction,…
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The Feminist Reading List to End All Feminist Reading Lists
In case you missed it, Rumpus contributor Michelle Dean whipped up a superb “pop-culture feminist syllabus” at Flavorwire. Ranging from time-tested classics like Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman to newer but equally exciting material like Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Dean’s…
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Which Do You Spend More Money On: Ebooks or Lattes?
In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay called “Books vs. Cigarettes,” trying to figure out which habit cost him more and whether books were simply out of some people’s financial reach. For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Kaya Genç updates…
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What Child Abuse Looks Like Among Billionaires
You’d think teenage twins Georgia and Patterson Inman, heirs to millions and millions of dollars, would have the easiest lives in the world. According to this Rolling Stone profile, you’d be wrong: While their father spent millions on drug binges and extravagances,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #195
MY CAR HORN ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my car horn.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
There are no holiday weekends in August, but there are weekend Rumpus roundups. If you feel like you need a hundred-year-nap, you might relate to Saturday’s comic by Yumi Sakugawa. And on Sunday, Rob Roberge wrestled with the way fiction…
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Notable New York: 8/19-8/25
The end of August is a notoriously slow time for events of all kinds in New York. Why this year, and this week, has been an exception I do not know. August is full of great, weird, thought-provoking events. Get…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the working week, here are two timelines of slang for genitals. Important news update: San Miguel Island is pretty neat. 1920s Australian criminals were very dapper. Everyone loves naked mole rats. Maybe you’d like to see some paintings…
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Lit-Link Round-up
PEN 2013 Literary Winners announced. Did I link this kick-ass piece last week? I’ve been sending it to every memoirist I know and people are really responding to it. FC2’s Sukenick and Doctorow prizes open their doors to submissions.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Literary Fiction’s Dilemma
If literary fiction offers an alternative to more mainstream “narratives of reassurance,” can the oft-cited moral experiment of Heinz’s Dilemma help us understand why such challenging work isn’t more popular?
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/17-8/23
Saturday 8/17: PoetryPalooza presents The Claremont Forum and Prison Library Project. Featuring poetry readings by Treesje Powers, Vickie Vertiz, Kenji C. Liu, Rachelle Cruz, Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut, Bob Covington, and Zzyzx WriterZ. The event also includes a workshop and open…