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Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita
The hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
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Form Revealing Itself: A Conversation with Liz Prato
Liz Prato discusses her essay collection VOLCANOES, PALM TREES, AND PRIVILEGE.
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How I Lived and Wrote in Las Vegas
Then again, I wonder if the distinct pleasure of Las Vegas lies in the simulacrum.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Suzuki and Kawasaki in the Dominican Republic
We are all punchlines. Projections of projections of projections. But whose joke is it? And where is the bill?
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Discovering Septimania
I set off for Rome with my fiddle and a backpack, planning to busk as long as the tourists could stand it.
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Spotlight: Lorenzo Fonda’s “Yo Solve Cuba”
Jotting down experiences in comics form is also a way for me to assimilate and process them through my own life-filter…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kevin Oderman
Traveling abroad, of course, the world insists, asks, Where are you from?
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Memphis-area Burke’s Book Store celebrated its 140th year of selling books. The current owners plan to use the milestone reintroduce the store, and that includes investing in a custom bicycle to make book deliveries. Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi started…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Move over, polar bears: global warming now threatens billionaires’ private islands. You can get Leonardo da Vinci’s Tuscan villa for a measly…
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The Atlas
I wanted to be a part of New Orleans. For months, I thought that meant drinking, eating, buying, taking pictures.
