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The Rumpus Interview with Matt Bell
Author Matt Bell talks video games, fiction, nonfiction, politics, empathy, and his new books, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Scrapper.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Greater Than Themselves
Stephen Dau writes from Brussels on the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, and how average citizens are stepping up to meet the needs that the government cannot.
The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins
The more narratives that approach reality "differently" get treated as "insane" or "unreal," the less readers are exposed to them, and the more "unreal" or "insane" they seem. It's like a feedback loop.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Like Mike
All the same, I’m as much a slave to necessity as anyone here. Fear and desire rule the heart. The paycheck has me leashed and basically obedient.
The Rumpus Interview with Margo Jefferson
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson talks about her new memoir, Negroland, and about growing up in an elite black community in the segregated Chicago of the 1950s and 1960s.
Spotlight: “Judgmental Reviews of Common Pasta Shapes”
Writer and cartoonist John Leavitt talks about what we talk about when we talk about pasta.
Sound Takes: This Wilderness
The world and its inhabitants may be coming to nothing, but that, this band proclaims, is no excuse not to dance.
Paper Trumpets #27: I Don’t Remember How It Ends
I wanted to put that image inside a scene that disrupts the beauty of it.
Sound & Vision: Spencer Drate & Judith Salavetz
Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz on their long collaborative career designing for artists like John Lennon, the Talking Heads, and more.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
[Boston] was a map out of the damage of my self-awareness and into some new evidence of beauty.
The Last Book I Loved: Station Eleven
In the distance between me and the story, I can see all the ways I would have to change without technology, because of all the ways technology has already changed me.