Steve Almond
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Steve Almond on Comedy and Politics
“Why take to the streets when Stewart and Colbert are on the case? It’s a lot easier, and more fun, to experience the war as a passive form of entertainment than as a source of moral distress requiring citizen activism.”…
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“Liberals Are Ruining America. I Know Because I Am One.”
At The New York Times, Rumpus columnist Steve Almond argues that liberals are treating “for-profit propaganda as news” to the detriment of our political system. Almond makes a strong case for ignoring the demagogues and instead seeking out those who want…
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THE WEEK IN GREED #8: Explaining Taxes to a Five Year Old
One nice thing about small children is that they aren’t scared to ask questions. They haven’t completely absorbed the idea that ignorance is shameful.
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Steve Almond Reading (Tonight!)
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond will read from his collection God Bless America: Stories tonight, 7:30pm at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. Plus, there will be a performance by singer-songwriter Dan Bern.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chloe Caldwell
I first saw Chloe Caldwell do her thing a year ago. She read an essay about an orgy she’d participated in and how much she’d enjoyed the orgy, and the particular moments she’d enjoyed,
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THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like the Fallen World
It’s no coincidence that the one man willing to lie about his savagery as an adolescent is the one running for president.
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Non-Awards
Listen in to Here & Now as Rumpus columnist Steve Almond discusses the 2012 Pulitzer Prize fiction indecision–and why it may be a good thing. Almond argues that we are overly invested in literary awards and suggests that the Pulitzer…
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THE WEEK IN GREED #3: What We Remember of the Old Country
Let’s say you work at the Renaissance Esmeralda in Indian Wells, just down the road from Palm Springs. You do maintenance stuff: irrigation, pool filters, plumbing.
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Story Prize Collections
The Story Prize announced their choices for outstanding and notable story collections of 2011. TSP features Rumpus columnist Steve Almond’s God Bless America, along with a number of Rumpus Book Club selections, including Daniel Orozco’s Orientation and Other Stories and Jim…
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THE WEEK IN GREED #2: Soprano Defeats Romney!
A quick pop quiz for the upwardly mobile couch potato: what theme unites virtually all our marquee cable television shows?
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Friday Features
We’re ending the week with a big ol’ Rumpus bang. Steve Almond kicked off a brand-new column, THE WEEK IN GREED. Plus, Rick Moody is back in action with a new SWINGING MODERN SOUNDS. Hooray!
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THE WEEK IN GREED #1: The Quality of Owning
Because of flaws in my character that I am helpless to correct, I spent some minutes last week watching a clip on the BDM[1] of folks cheering the eventual Republican nominee for President, Willard Mitt Romney. Romney had just won…