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The Rumpus Interview with David Lipsky

David Lipsky, whose book was recently adapted into the movie The End of the Tour, discusses his career as a writer and journalist as it’s evolved in the twenty years since his road trip with David Foster Wallace.

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Letter to Everyone Else

Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to storm the literary world over at Rolling Stone and New York Magazine, and if those accolades weren’t enough, Toni Morrison has decreed him to “fill the intellectual void…

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Tom Petty Speaks Out Against Confederate Flag

Following the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, Tom Petty approached Rolling Stone with his desire to speak out in favor of the decision and…

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Music and Letters

Over at the Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber takes us back in time to the text-heavy rock ‘n’ roll ads of the 70s, early in the days of rock magazines—a stark contrast…

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Weekly Geekery

Should writers blog? A unified theory of email. TLDR version: There isn’t one. They aren’t bots. They are people. And they have access to your private information. It is necessary for…

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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

Author Laura van den Berg talks to the Rumpus about why she thinks America is obsessed with dystopias, the intersection of surrealism and realism in her work, and choosing an ambiguous ending for her new novel, Find Me.

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The Real Problem with Campus Rape

Fraternities do not have a monopoly on rapists: not at UVA, not at any frat, not even the deep Southern ones where upwards of 100 guys live in the house.…

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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: Stain

It’s hard to remember why I was silent. Maybe, like some of the women only now reporting they were raped by Bill Cosby decades ago, I was afraid I wouldn’t be believed.

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Good Victims

We couldn’t remember his name. We couldn’t remember what he looked like. We couldn’t remember how many there were. We changed our story as we began to remember more details.…

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The Real Crisis

Along with the other onslaught of reactions to The New Republic’s mass resignation, George Packer offers his own response at the New Yorker, suggesting that the “collapse” (along with the…

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Rolling Stone: A Rumpus Roundup

Last month, Rolling Stone ran an article by Sabrina Rubin Erdely detailing the gang-rape and attempted coverup of a student at the University of Virginia known as “Jackie.” . Today,…

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Forsaken

Over at Rolling Stone, Alex Morris gives us vignettes from dystopian lifestyles; all of them from teenagers that’ve just “come-out”: So while Jackie hoped for the best, she knew the…

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