Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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Posts Tagged: basketball
Ways to Become Unpinnable: Talking with Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz discusses her new collection, POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM.
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Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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A Divine Comedy of Experience: Hannah Ensor’s Love Dream with Television
Art is a fickle running buddy, legacy jumps out unexpectedly, and love is too serious not to joke about.
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They Smile When They Chew
There is at least one monster on every team.
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Alive and Kicking: Talking with Dana Czapnik
Dana Czapnik discusses her debut novel, THE FALCONER.
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What Eyes Does Your Poem Have?
And this is how poetry derives its power, its agency, by the ways it can direct the eye. But the poet has a different toolkit from a visual artist. The world of a poem builds incrementally: it grows, it accretes.
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LeBron James as Personal Essayist
Beneath all personal essays, especially those that deal with trauma, a change, or, in James’s case, a tough decision, the implicit narrative is that the author is presently in a clear enough place to produce the prose.
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Over the Hill
What’s really fascinating about the end of an athlete’s career is not his decline; it’s what comes next.
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We moved to Dallas from a small market town in the middle of England. We spent our first Christmas in America driving around our adopted Texan neighborhood, noses pressed against the car windows, looking at the miles of sparkling houses.
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In the Park
Doin’ It In the Park, a forthcoming documentary from Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau, reveals the world of New York City pick-up basketball. In gathering footage for the film, the co-directors made visits to 180 courts throughout the five boroughs. You can check out the trailer here. (Via Flavorpill)
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