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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Stephanie Vaughn

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In January of 2001, optimistic and slightly at sea at the start of my final college semester, I walked into the University of Wisconsin’s student bookstore in search of an anthology edited by a writer whose name I’d never heard, full of stories written by writers I’d not read, assigned for a class I’d only added at the very last second: creative writing.  It was a workshop.  The book?

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The Rumpus Review of The Artist

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Silent films, like theater, require their audience members to suspend a sense of reality, investing instead in wonder, imagination, and sensory titillation. The greatest films of the silent era were able to transform the dart of an eye, the contortion of a dimple, or the mournful whine of a violin into entirely new vernaculars.

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