cats
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Rumpus Original Fiction: People and Oranges and People
Something must remain of me, of course. Someone has to lock the door behind us when we go out.
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Unicorns, Black Holes, and Monsters
Rumpus illustrator A.D. Puchalski has two new comics available for purchase! The first, Sword of Fray, is a fun action-adventure romp about a unicorn who’s the embodiment of a black hole, an evisceration-happy cat, and a “poor sucker.” The second, Restless, is the…
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Part Cat, Part Owl
Margaret Atwood will be writing a new comic series for Dark Horse Comics called Angel Catbird, a story about a hero who is part cat, part owl due to genetic splicing. She is publishing the comic in collaboration with Nature Canada’s…
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Morrissey Is Miserable for Australian Cats
Morrissey has spoken out against Australia’s plan to cull two million feral cats by 2020, calling the animals “two million smaller versions of Cecil the lion,” reports the Guardian. According to Australia’s environment minister, feral cats are responsible for killing an…
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Changing the Subject
Does the time come for everyone when holding it in just won’t do anymore? I kept the story of my abortion to myself until Michael broke up with me two years later.
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Murakami Plays Dear Abby
“There’s no use of me singing ‘I can’t stop loooooooving you’ to you, I suppose.” We beg to differ, Haruki: The Rumpus would love to hear your crooning Ray Charles rendition. Alas, author Haruki Murakami hasn’t serenaded us yet, but…
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Paper Trumpets #16: The Feline Trio
People may think cats are so 2014, but I beg to differ. Cats are forever!
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The Miniature Canon
Historically, the genre has involved lots of religious tracts, some erotica, and various improving volumes. But cat literature forms a not-inconsiderable part of the canon. The Paris Review delves into the feline-filled world of miniature books.
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Cats Haven’t Changed Much Since the 1400s
Elegant words from a manuscript painstakingly illustrated by a fifteenth-century scribe: “Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam.” Translation: “Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night.” The blog Medieval Fragments…
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Happy Birthday, T. S. Eliot!
Don’t let that Oxford education and British citizenship fool you: 125 years ago today, Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He went on to become one of the defining voices of the modernist movement with poems like The…
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The Cutest Librarian
If you ask Kuzya, an assistant librarian at the State Hermitage Library in Novorossiysk, Russia, for a book recommendation, you might go home with A Tale of Two Kitties or The Brothers Kara-meow-zov. Because he is a cat. And he wears a bow-tie…
