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Arthur Jones will Illustrate Your One-Sentence Story

This summer, writer, illustrator and animator Arthur Jones will illustrate your one-sentence story with one Post-It Note. Jones, who has taken his Post-It Note Series on a cross-country tour, and whose...

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Animatio Absurdus: The Rumpus Interview with Arthur Jones

Gored by a banana on a barroom floor, a man lies supine as a nun slaps a midget, a down-and-out Santa drinks hard and a sullied beauty queen totes a severed head. These are not characters in a Jean...

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David Rakoff, 1964 – 2012

We’re saddened by the news that David Rakoff died today at 47.The Awl has a tribute to the “writer, aesthete, genius, New York devotee… exceptional reporter and observer, performer, director and...

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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

On May 10, 2012, This American Life hosted a live show that was simultaneously broadcast into a selection of movie theaters. The theme, “Invisible Made Visible,” underscored the radio program’s...

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The Rumpus Interview with Alexander Chee

In Alexander Chee’s latest novel The Queen of the Night, we meet Lilliet Berne, a woman of unknown origin who has risen to soprano stardom in 19th century Paris. One night, at a ball at the Luxembourg...

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You Can’t Be a Snob with Bad Teeth: Talking with David Sedaris

Reading David Sedaris’s Theft By Finding is like reading the liner notes for all your favorite essays. A collection of diary entries, written from 1977 to 2002, the book begins with Sedaris hitchhiking...

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