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Amy Letter
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Branching Stories on the Web
If you loved Choose Your Own Adventure stories as a kid and still wonder where all that branching narrative magic went, you might want to check out ADJUNCT by Ishmael Gilgamesh, in which you are a writer (of some kind)…
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Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Amy Letter reviews Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher today in Rumpus Books.
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Gruesome Spectacles by Austin Sarat
We the People of the United States do not wish to meet or exceed the depravity of those we deem too depraved to live. We just want to kill them. We want to have our death penalty and be good…
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The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
Amy Letter reviews Laura van den Berg’s THE ISLE OF YOUTH today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Open the Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview with Lori Emerson
“I do think that diagnosing and fixing problems with our machines that are twenty or even thirty years old is similar to fixing an old VW Bug—the architecture is simple enough and open enough that, given enough spare parts, there’s…
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An Occupy Roundup, Thanksgiving/Black Friday Edition
The American Occupation of America received less attention this week as the country (in my dad’s words) “celebrated the near-genocide of the inhabitants of this hemisphere through the killing and consumption of its friendly, harmless, innocent birds.” This week also…
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An Occupy Roundup
Yesterday was Veterans Day and the American Occupation of America was focused on its members who have served in the armed forces. In the hot front city of Oakland, Scott Olsen, the first veteran seriously injured when police fired ordinance…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Latest from the American Occupation of America: The Oakland Occupation is the hot front in the struggle against Corporate Exploitation: an attack by the police that injured Iraq vet Scott Olson led to a general strike and a large and…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Ana Menendez
“As I writer, I dream of readers who approach a book with the same kind of engagement that went into the writing.”
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The Scarlet “SW” for Sex Worker
I first heard about the U of New Mexico controversy via Facebook, when Joy Harjo left a status update reporting that she’d had to quit her job because the university was preventing her from protecting her students from sexual harassment.…
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The Story Behind the Furry
Today we ran an interview with Kilcodo, a furry who makes her living making full-body fursuits for others, by Amy Letter. Here Amy tells the compelling story behind the interview: Prior to interviewing her, I knew only vaguely about her…
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Oh So Furry: The Rumpus Interview with Kilcodo
Kilcodo is a friend of mine; she makes a living making full-body fursuits for other furries. She also moonlights as a lemur. The other night she let me interview her, and get to know her lemur persona, Bingo.