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“Attention Is the First and Final Act of Love”

Steve Almond’s Writs of Passion is “the best Valentine’s gift money can buy,” at least according to About.com (and us!). About.com guide Corey Silverberg interviewed Almond about pleasure, emotional danger, and how…

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Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto

Because I’ve devoted perhaps eighty percent of my adult waking hours to thinking about sex, and it seems dishonest to pretend otherwise in my work.

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More on Memoir

Rumpus columnist Steve Almond weighs in on Stephen Elliott’s side of the is-memoir-an-acceptable-form-of-literature debate. “[Hamilton] Nolan is right to decry this kind of cynicism,” writes Almond. “But what he gets…

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THE WEEK IN GREED #19: The Pressure of the Real

I was in a Starbuck’s in central Connecticut trying to think about the election

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“Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt”

Three years ago yesterday, in honor of Kurt Vonnegut’s birthday, we reprinted Steve Almond’s homage to the late author, “Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt.” “The main thing was that Vonnegut made…

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Week in Greed #17: Conservatives Storm the Week in Greed!

I felt it was important for Rumpus readers to hear what conservatives have to say for themselves. So I spent the past month interviewing a bunch.

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The Week in Greed #16: How to Take a Salesman to the Woodshed

Voters at home, the ones still open to voting for him, need Obama to take the fight to Romney, to speak with urgency and moral force. He needs to have lines of attack prepared for particular topics, and those attacks need to tell a larger story.

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The Week in Greed #12: Who Let the Dog Whistles Out?

The goal isn’t just to rile white voters up, but to make them feel that their own racist impulses are merely reasonable responses to a culture stacked against them.

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Features & Reviews

Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes

Here’s a few very short stories for your Monday morning: “When a door opens and you can’t see who’s coming, it’s almost always a cat that would like to be…

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A Die-Hard Fan’s Lament

Rumpus columnist Steve Almond, an unwavering Oakland Raiders fan, writes for The New York Times about being a true sports fan, specifically a fan of a floundering team: “As I prepare to…

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Muni Anti-Muslim Ad Controversy

Adam Serwer reports for Mother Jones on the anti-Muslim advertisements that have recently appeared on Muni vehicles. The advertisements are paid for by Pamela Geller, an anti-muslim blogger: “The ads declare…

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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT STEVE ALMOND’S TAXES

“Further questions should be referred to my accountant, the aforementioned Marty, who is no longer employed by H&R Block and who was, last time I checked, living in a small…

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