New Year’s resolutions
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The Habit of Art: Another Year of Daily Painting
For starters, it’s not magic. You still have your regular life to lead.
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Readers Report: Impossible Resolutions
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Impossible Resolutions.”
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A Visual Guide for “How to Be Perfect”
Count among your true friends people of various stations of life. Do not exclaim, “Isn’t technology wonderful!” Learn how to whistle at earsplitting volume. Still hunting for a good New Year’s resolution? No worries! Over at the Paris Review, Rumpus…
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Change, but Not Too Much
Mensah Demary caps off the year at Catapult with an essay that reflects on the traditional New Year’s resolution and what our easy dismissing of these attempts to change says about us: I should probably write a few words about…
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Oceans 2014
If your oddly specific New Year’s Resolution is to watch and read everything Steven Soderbergh watched and read in 2014, here’s a handy guide to all the sex, lies, and videotape your year has in store.
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Literary Resolutions
Authors, editors, and publishers make New Year’s resolutions, too. Head over to Electric Literature to discover what, among others, Emily Gould, Catherine Lacey, Mitchell S. Jackson, Lincoln Michel, Alex Gilvarry, and Jason Diamond are committing to for 2015.
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New Readers Report Theme: Resolutions
After reading all your splendid short pieces on the theme “Magic” we’re eager for another Rumpus Readers Report! This month’s theme? Resolutions. (It is January, after all.) Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT yahoo.com. We’ll choose the…