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NYC: Writers Reading Other Writers
This Saturday, our friends over at The Believer (and Gigantic) are hosting Writers Reading Other Writers as part of NYC Lit Crawl. The event will feature work by Rumpus contributors Justin Taylor and Catherine Lacey, alongside work by Sparrow. The event begins at…
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Happy Roald Dahl Day!
The Guardian has put together a very awesome link round-up of Dahl-inspired activities for the writer’s birthday today, including pictures of Dahl’s childhood and family, the man himself reading the BFG, and a walk through the Roald Dahl Museum via…
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The (Imagined) Woman Reader and Male Anxiety
“The Contemporary Male Novelists fear the Female Reader is no longer willing to interpret rampant misogyny as searing self-portraits of mangled masculinity, but rather as just more misogyny and who needs it? Their livelihoods threatened, the CMNs are doing the…
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Fail Better
“Then again, you might not be the funny type. How about making the rejection letter poignant, depressing, or even hurtful? Push the envelope. Your audience is a bunch of bored writers begging for a little drama in their pathetic lives.…
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Psychopathic Presidents
PsychCentral covers a study that claims presidential candidates benefit from psychopathic behavior. It is purported that traits such as “fearless dominance” can help the Chief lead to their best abilities: “In fact, he noted that fearless dominance, linked to low social and physical apprehensiveness,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh hello, new monkey. Here are some soviet schoolbooks for you. It begins: scientists implant false short-term memory into rodents. Lightning-caused hallucinations are the worst kinds of hallucinations. As always, hurrah for bioluminescence.
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Support Anti-Bullying Organizations
You can help support Hold On Another Day and Project Believe In Me, two largely youth-run organizations that fight bullying, by contributing to the production of their compilation album, “Songs For Project Believe In Me.” Once the album is completed, the…
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Trouble In Nipple Paradise
The New Yorker recently posted a cartoon which features a naked, and post-coital, Adam and Eve to their Facebook page. What resulted was a kerfuffle between the magazine and social media site over their nudity regulation policies. Specifically, Facebook took issue…
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“The 13-Week Background Check”
At The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan links to last week’s essay by Patrick Walsh, “Guns and the American.” Thanks, Andrew, we love you back!
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“What They Came For Was To Kill Me”
Maybe if I’d participated more when I was a student, I’d have had a well formed outlook about who people really are, and I would have better grasped evil. I wouldn’t have committed as many errors as I have. I…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to have the best color in the world, tiny African berry. Maybe you’d like to have a bacteria portrait. Have I linked to this before? I am linking to it again: the cephalopoda! Worthless animals need love too. It…
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Thanks, The Millions
“As an NYC neophyte, it seemed to me that The Rumpus really does love New York. And from my vantage at the back of the crowd, enjoying some of my favorite authors (and decent drinks) while rubbing elbows with fellow…