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Halloween

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Literary Puns, Halloween-Style

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 31, 2013
If you like Timothy Leo Taranto’s literary puns here on the Rumpus, you’ll also enjoy these Halloween-themed literary puns over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Written and illustrated by Rumpus contributor…
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Halloween Costumes for Book Nerds

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 31, 2013
Need a last-minute, low-hassle outfit for trick-or-treating? This list of literary Halloween costumes (with pictures, natch) has some great ideas—just grab a “Hello, My Name Is” sticker and write “Ishmael,” and…
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A Spooktacular Halloween Reading List

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 31, 2013
It’s Halloween, and the Hairpin’s Jia Tolentino has put together a frightfully good list of spooky books to read by the light of the jack-o-lantern. This list has it all:…
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“This Is Just To Say I’m a Zombie” by David Hernandez

  • Rumpus Original Poems
  • October 31, 2013
Happy Halloween from Rumpus Poetry, where we're pleased to offer you this take on William Carlos Williams's "This is just to say" by David Hernandez.
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The 50 Scariest Books Of All Time!

  • Ashley Perez
  • October 25, 2013
Just in time for Halloween, Flavorwire has compiled a list of the 50 scariest books of all time (with cover art)! The list includes the requisite additions of Stephen King…
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Make it a Ted Wilson Halloween

  • Ted Wilson
  • October 18, 2013
Not available in any store is the year’s most exciting costume: the Ted Wilson! Take this mask, pair it with a sweater, dress shirt, and khakis, and you’ll be the…
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Simple Madness or Something Else?

  • Nikita Schoen
  • October 31, 2012
Today is the day for ghost stories. At The New Yorker, Brad Leithauser analyzes Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw,” focusing on the distinction still being puzzled out by…
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Halloween is Waiting

  • Antonia Crane
  • October 31, 2012
Every Halloween, the ghost of my 11 year-old self haunts me. She’s in the candy aisle at Rite Aid gorging on fun-size Twix bars. She’s wrapping candy corn lights around…
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SPACE AVALANCHE: Childhood Trauma

  • Eoin Ryan
  • November 10, 2010
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Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 10/31

  • Caitlin Colford
  • October 26, 2010
This week in New York KGB goes Nonfiction, Small Press Extravaganza at WORD, Eric Puchner shares his Model Home, One Story at powerHouse, Eileen Myles reads from A Poets Novel,…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #30: Paula Whyman in Conversation with SM Shrake

  • Paula Whyman
  • October 1, 2010
Paula Whyman talks with SM Shrake about his annual witch costume in The Rumpus’s thirtieth mini-interview!
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem

  • Ronnie Scott
  • January 19, 2010
"I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working."
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