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What Makes a Book Not Worth Finishing?
Is it that you don’t connect to the characters, or that the writing is weak? Maybe there’s one too many typos or the plot seems implausible. Goodreads has created an infographic about the most abandoned books (Fifty Shades of Grey…
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Release Surprisingly Literary Music Video
Regardless of your level of enamoration with indie-rock mainstays the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, if you’re a Rumpus reader, you’ll probably dig the video for their new single “Sacrilege.” It unfolds like a short story, with a perfectly deployed reverse timeline…
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What About Sex-Negative Feminism?
“Sex does not happen in a vacuum immune to outside structural influences,” writes Jillian Horowitz in a piece titled “Unpopular Opinion: I’m A Sex-Negative Feminist.” “[I]n fact, it can (and does) replicate inescapable systems of power and dominance.” “Unpopular opinion”…
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Readers Report: All for You
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “All for You.”
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When the Writer Becomes the Written About
When I write a story about someone else, I keep me, myself and I, out of it….But a few years back, I wrote about someone else and did belong in the story; I was an undeniable part of it. While…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Watch out Ireland! There might be a Russian ghost ship heading right towards you! Io9 pictures prohibition. Here is a 1962 NASA rejection letter to a prospective female astronaut. MIT’s Immersion is your time sink of the day. I assume…
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Tonight! Quiet Lightning + The Rumpus
We’re teaming up with Quiet Lightning, San Francisco’s favorite monthly submission-based reading series, to host a night of deep thinking and good drinking. Featured guests include Alice LaPlante, Brandon Brown, Janine Brito, and electropop party band Le Fomo, plus a literary mixtape…
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Hurry, Sloth!
Looking for something delightful? Watch Black Francis of The Pixies read James Otto Seibold’s Lost Sloth, “the best-ever, and funniest, picture book about a sloth.” Enjoy:
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Ox and Pigeon: A Heroic E-Publishing House for Unilingual Americans
The digital literary press Ox and Pigeon was created in 2010 by three friends who, on vacation in Peru, recognized the need for high-quality English translations of all the brilliant yet inaccessible foreign authors we don’t realize we’re missing. Their…
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Organic Keeping-on
Mental Floss’s brief history of the term “OK” is more than just all right. Using Allan Metcalf’s OK: The Improbably Story of America’s Greatest Word as a source, it covers not only the term’s birth, but also how it went the…
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How the Other Half of Myself Lives
When Tara Clancy’s mom went from being a cleaning lady to being the girlfriend of the millionaire whose office she cleaned, Clancy’s time became divided in a strange way: If it was a Wednesday after school, I’d be playing handball…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to discuss roadside mermaids. Radio bursts from beyond the galaxy! Here are Einstein’s timecards. Also: science guns. This is why we can’t have nice things: hundreds of backyard chickens are ending up in shelters.