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Love’s Language
Love exposes the so-called “truth” of the world to be a fabrication and asks us to imagine what freedom might look like. No wonder philosophers like Alain Badiou and Mari Ruti champion love so fiercely in their work. Love unsettles…
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A Poem with Cops in It
There shouldn’t be cops in this poem.If we can’t be abolitionist in a poem, then where?But it’s July and there are cops everywhere & yesterdaythere was a beautiful balding man on west 14th,stooping & sweating like Frank O’Hara, dead 59…
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What Is Freedom: Stefan Sagmeister
Freedom is enjoying your work so much that you would keep doing it even if the money stopped, and being in the position to actually do it. Most people love a thing they are never allowed to spend their days…
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The July Rumpus Book Club Selection: Magician by Tracy Lynne Oliver
Our second installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* will be on July 28th at 7pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Tracy Lynne Oliver about her debut novel Magician, a dark fantasy that follows a Boy…
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Cruise Ships, Clowns, and Comedic Calamity: An Interview with Kathleen Rooney
“It bugs me that in our culture, animal stories are typically relegated to being “just for kids,” a bias which underestimates both animals and kids.Fiction is a form of magic that lets an author—and eventually a reader—inhabit any kind of…
