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Literary Geniuses Say Some Not-So-Genius Things

In “honor” of David Gilmour’s comments to a Hazlitt interviewer about how he refused to teach books by female authors, Rumpus contributor Michelle Dean rounded up some other literary men’s contributions…

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Book Club Love

In a post titled “The New Golden Age of Online Book Clubs,” Flavorwire shouts out the Rumpus Book Club as one of many sites using new technology to recreate the…

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Alas, Poor Transatlantic Review!

The Paris Review just celebrated its sixtieth birthday—and not a gray hair in sight! But many game-changing, sterling-quality literary magazines didn’t make it to that ripe old(ish) age. At Flavorwire, Jason…

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Next Letter in the Mail: Brian Spears!

The next Letter in the Mail, going out Thursday, August 15, is from none other than Brian Spears! Brian is a mainstay at The Rumpus. He’s our poetry editor and he…

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We Love You Back, Flavorwire!

We’re psyched to see we made it onto Flavorwire’s list of 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers, especially because we were labeled “the best of the West”! Labels are always…

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Three Ways of Looking at Sex and the City

In this week’s New Yorker, TV critic Emily Nussbaum grapples with the cultural legacy of Sex and the City: High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in…

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Step Aside, Dashiell Hammett

If you like your detectives hardboiled and your femmes fatale, you’ll dig Flavorwire’s list of ten essential neo-noir authors. From Dennis Lehane (author of Shutter Island and Mystic River) to Lindsay…

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Rumpus Women Should Be Writing for Harper’s!

The disparity of women writers in the publishing world has been an increasingly hot topic of late. Flavorwire has compiled a list entitled “10 Women Who Should be Writing for…

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Making VIDA Count

We reached out to several of the worst offenders to ask where they thought they had gone wrong…but got very little in the way of responses. So we decided, instead,…

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The Course Syllabi of Famous Writers

Imagine if the authors who created these syllabi for their courses were all teaching at the same school at the same time. “Who’d you get for English?” “David Foster Wallace. I…

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Board Games for the Bookish

Whether you prefer the strategic maneuvers of Animal Farm or the holiday cheer of A Christmas Carol, Flavorwire has the literary board game for you. After all, nothing screams “family fun” like…

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Snow Angels

Flavorwire has a collection of photos of authors frolicking in frozen weather. Neil Gaiman’s dog has a weird leash, while Hemingway looks just jaunty as hell.

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