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FUNNY WOMEN #38: Actual Invented “Findings” from Harper’s Magazine
Scientists have identified the gene that inclines individuals toward excessive Post-It use. Three out of five British women misread the word “aviator” as “vibrator” after prolonged exposure to violent news broadcasts. Non-mammalian school mascots were associated with lower student body…
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The Funny Women Interview with Amy Sedaris
Feeling down? Make a Self-Esteem Shell Collage! Write a poem on a piece of paper about you and the ocean and about how you feel about the ocean and why you are special and of course the ocean and then…
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The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters
Two funny women interviewed each other about their lives. They’re also sisters. They were raised like twins, best friends, by a hovering yet distracted Jewish mother and a drama-and-opera-prone psychiatrist father.
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Introducing Rumpus Women, Vol. I
We’re delighted to present the introduction to the first and most extraordinary book ever published by The Rumpus!
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The Rumpus Review of The Social Network: Suck It
At the end of The Social Network, a new indie flick that no one has ever heard of, I turned to my friend, and out of every intelligent comment I could have made, I said, “There was so much testosterone…
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Lorrie Moore at The New Yorker Festival
Notes I took on what Lorrie Moore said while in conversation with Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker‘s fiction editor, that I felt selfish keeping to myself: How to become a writer: -You can’t carve solitude out of loneliness–you need people…
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FUNNY WOMEN #32: Brag, Build, Banana
One woman’s search for everything across India, Iran, and Iceland… excerpts from my extraordinary upcoming novel of self-discovery.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #48: Write Like a Motherfucker
I want to know what you have inside you. I want to see the contours of your second beating heart.
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Write to Get Paid
“I really believe that most writers in America have taken on this idea that we’re never going to get paid–and so we accept so little for what we do, when what we do is so valuable. And it’s wanted.” —Ali…
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The Rumpus Funny Women Interview with Sarah Haskins
Like most women, I am gay for Sarah Haskins. Unlike most women, I got to interview her. Here are some things you should know about Sarah to get the most out of our interview:
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Have I Earned These Clichés?
When life is not the slightest bit luminescent, I read Lorrie Moore. She honors a commitment to the search for truth and morality through emotional and reachable means.
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Funny Women Meets Broadsheet
Elissa Bassist, editor/curator of The Rumpus’s Funny Women series (submission guidelines here) is a new contributor to Salon’s Broadsheet. Her first offering is titled “Sleep Your Way to a Book Deal.” Here’s a taste: As a young writer, I dream…