1. My Adidas – Run DMC: The kids are ten years old, smoking in a park. The Asian child says to young Theo, Mrs. Smith is fucking hot, I’m going to fuck her. Theo says, How are you going to do that, she’s married?
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While we were all shaking our heads about sexist changes to the “American Novelists” page, Wikipedia editor “Qworty” was taking action—by making a series of “revenge edits” to Amanda Filipacchi’s page.But, sadly and strangely, that was...
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights 7-9pm EST in New York City. Presentations vary weekly and include everything from...
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In an interview with addiction website The Fix, reprinted at Salon, memoirist and poet Mary Karr discusses getting clean, flouting rules, and how sobriety shaped her relationship with David Foster Wallace.You’re present when you’re not drinking...
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We wade into Michelle Tea’s new novel, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, with a collection of enticing excerpted illustrations by Jason Polan. ***Art by Jason Polan, from the novel Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea....
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An illustrated look at the life and times of Jason Polan, the artist behind Michelle Tea's newest book, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek.
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It’d be a stretch to say that Johnny Cash and Iggy Pop are connected in any meaningful way. Both are patron saints of The Holy Order of White Dudes With Guitars, sure, and drugs, but that’s about it. They’re forever glued together in my mind, tied...
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Kent Shaw reviews Dan Chelotti's X today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Godzilla, great grey-green monster, rises up out of the ocean, makes his way toward Tokyo. Is always making his way toward Tokyo. Perpetually swimming in cold waters, bubble trail on the surface, until he nears land and comes screaming to the surface...
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You can’t always get what you want…and if what Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones wants is forgiveness for decades-old library fines, then he’s out of luck.Actually, that’s probably not true—many libraries have an amnesty day where you can...
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The next Letter in the Mail, going out May 31, is from our beloved Lidia Yuknavitch!Lidia is a longtime Rumpus contributor and interviewee (for a taste of both, see her interview with Dear Sugar). She’s the author of the novel Dora: A Headcase...
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What a cool way to celebrate Ireland’s storytelling tradition: a new Irish stamp features the text of an entire short-short by 17-year-old Dubliner Eoin Moore.Moore’s piece, about how “[t]he city embodies the people, and the people embody the city,”...
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The Rumpus Book Club chats with Ru Freeman about On Sal Mal Lane, war as seen through children’s eyes, and Sinhalese cuss words.This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month the Rumpus Book Club hosts an online discussion...
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I like to imagine that they are waiting for us. I like to imagine that they check the reservation (“Burton, for three, are you sure?”), that they bite their nails and tap at their watches and wait breathlessly for us to enter....
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Setting much of the plot in Ghana Must Go—Taiye Selasi’s engaging first novel about two African immigrants and their children—in Boston was an clever choice: A hilly colony established by English immigrants fleeing religious restrictions, now teeming...
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On Monday, the novelist Matthew Sharpe announced that once a week for the next twelve weeks he will write a very short story to post on his blogspot as an experiment in self-publishing.Uncommonly simple in execution, his blog is pure unadulterated text....
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Related Posts:Spotlight: Boco Watches the SeaAll Over Coffee #634THE BINS: DealMaakies: StandupTHE NEW YORK COMICS SYMPOSIUM: ANDREA TSURUMI, ERIC LAMBE...
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0) The beginning of all this, maybe. This woman who insists I could have loved anybody. We saw the Atlantic from Normandy. We saw the Pacific from San Francisco. This is not “my love is like an ocean.” We’d been through that already....
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Susan Wright, activist, writer, and founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, sits down to discuss the recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders updates, and what they mean for the kink community.
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Loneliness is more than just a feeling, according to an article in the New Republic. It’s a biological process that activates your physical pain responses and trashes your immune system.Here’s one of many fascinating (and, okay, probably depressing)...
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“Achebe A Celebrated Storyteller, But No Father Of African Literature, Says Soyinka.” The headline sound sensationalistic and snipey, but this interview with Wole Soyinka about the death of Chinua Achebe is nuanced and comprehensive, if more than...
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Tory Adkisson reviews Matthew Hittinger's Skin Shift today in Rumpus Poetry.
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It is not a coincidence that among the synonyms for “practice” is “ritual,” and for “ritual,” “practice.” When you do a thing over and over—even if it is only so banal and small as lighting a cigarette—it will assume a shape and a...
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