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Relying on Memory
For The Millions, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho interviews novelist Karan Mahajan about the origins of his recently released novel The Association of Small Bombs. The two also discuss how moving from New Delhi to America shaped Mahajan’s writing: It gave me a sense of freedom in my writing. I had a private…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day, another batch of newly discovered deep sea animals. The parrot who knew too much. What happens when a city is fully privatized (spoiler alert: it’s not great). Let’s all take a trip inside the Harvard pigment library. Want…
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Sohn
At the end of the day, all we have to hold onto, really, is other people’s stories. And that’s how Alizah Solario’s series “Writers on Wheels Getting Tea” was born. The first interview features author Amy Sohn.
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Searching for a Self
If a link falls on the Internet and no one is online to click it, does it really make a connection? Michael Seidlinger takes on the Sisyphean task of building identity in cyberspace: We have all become Sisyphus, pushing our…
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The Others
While Lani’s sole purpose in the book seemed to be a genderqueer Jiminy Cricket, pulling the wool back from Claire’s incredibly naïve eyes, they allowed me to look past the narrative I’d been told since birth. Over at Lit Hub,…
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This Week in Posivibes: The Feelies Reissues
If you don’t know The Feelies, you’ve been given the opportunity to remedy that: Bar/None records has re-released 1988’s Only Life and 1991’s Time for a Witness. Both hit stores March 11th and can be purchased via Bar/None’s website. The Feelies are one of those…
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Living Wages Cost More Money
A new study has revealed why academic adjuncts are paid so little: living wages would cost universities a lot more money. A new study says that converting adjunct faculty to tenure track positions would cost $27 billion dollars. The study…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Not That Town
Times like those lead you to believe that writing is, before it’s anything else, about simply getting it straight.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Zoe Zolbrod
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from our own Sunday Rumpus Co-Editor, Zoe Zolbrod! Zoe writes her letter about another letter she must write but keeps postponing, and what happens when she finally writes it. To make…
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Weekly Geekery
Facial recognition technology is a little racist. Two writers talk about the end of the world and more importantly, the end of social media. Robots are just babies—tiny, terrifying babies. Nabokov and butterfly sex.
