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Finding Quiet

“So what to do? The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the...

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At the Believer, Meghan Daum dissects the “commenting culture” of the Internet and the rampant “haterade” in our public discourse.“A young person (any person) who published a piece as incendiary as...

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The Rumpus Interview with Momus

Since the early 1980’s, the 51 year old Scottish musician/writer/provocateur Nicholas Currie, better known as Momus, has been releasing music (his latest album, Hypnoprism, was his 18th) to varying...

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Documenting Sagas

An online, audiovisual storytelling network: Cowbird.“Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events. Our...

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“Perimeter-less Perimeters”

Believer co-founder and co-editor Heidi Julavitz writes about how online journals (such as The Rumpus!) caused the Believer to rethink some of its original tenets, including a strong resistance to...

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TPM Switches to Facebook Comments

In an interesting move, popular political site Talking Points Memo will begin using Facebook comments as their main commenting system. TPM Editor John Marshall explains the decision here.“…To make an...

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Network Gender Balance

Should you seek a utopian, gender equal virtual space in which to social network, scribd, orkut, and foursquare are where it’s at.However, the internet vortex of social networking sites sees the scales...

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“Twitter For Authors”

The LA Times reports that Twitter has released a how-to-manual titled “Twitter for Authors.”The guide details six tips particularly geared towards writers, some of which include the not-so-helpful “Be...

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Cut and Paste with Intention

However crude, social media today allows us to cut and paste our world into a space (mostly) under our control.Whether we’re posting on Pinterest (an action likened to tearing pages out of a magazine...

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FUNNY WOMEN #97: The Whitest Album

“The title essay of Joan Didion’s new collection is the best short piece on the late 1960s that I have yet read.” — Robert Towers, The New York Times, June 17, 19791.We log onto Facebook in order to...

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Improvising a Bone Graft

“Form—it’s because there are consequences.”—Lisa Robertson, Nilling.I turned to the internet after my brother died.The call came while I was putting on my makeup at the kitchen table. I watched my...

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Magical Vanishing Google Results

When Graeme Wood saw an ultra-wealthy college classmate’s name popping up on weird, perfunctory websites, he suspected something was up.After some diligent sleuthing, he discovered he was right—the...

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Trolls Are “Sadists and Psychopaths”

Common wisdom has it that the Internet has disconnected people from their sense of empathy—but maybe it’s just exposed society at large to greater numbers of people who were already unempathetic.This...

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140 Keystrokes

It’s hard to go a day without the question, does poetry matter? crop up somewhere, and if you’re in the mood for a longread, David Lehman has written an excellent essay on anxiety about poetry, in an...

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A Modern-Day Typewriter

The personal computer may have revolutionized the way writers write, but distractions from the Internet and social media may not make it the ideal tool for writing. Designer Adam Leeb has created a...

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The (Online) Stories We Tell

There was a man I thought I was in love with. In hindsight, I was infatuated with the idea of him, the newness after a relationship of ten years had just ended. I stalked him on Facebook after we met....

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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Jacob Wren

I first met Jacob Wren in 2009 at a writing retreat in Lithuania. Since then his writing has never ceased to impress me. Wren is a writer willing to take risks and ask big philosophical questions. His...

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Erykah Badu on Cyberspace

Erykah Badu met up with okayplayer.’s program The Questions and the result is a meditation on what participation means in the digital age, among many other things. Watch the interview after the...

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden

Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best...

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Stay Free: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

When we first meet forty-four-year-old Shawn Matthews in Steph Cha’s newest novel Your House Will Pay, he’s standing in a prison parking lot with what remains of his family, waiting to pick up his...

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