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The Rumpus Interview with Adam Johnson

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Adam Johnson talks about his new book, Fortune Smiles, fiction and voice, veterans and defectors, solar-powered robots and self-driving cars, and infrared baseball caps that can blind security cameras.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Redheads

I’ve been a sucker for redheads since the day in second grade when chubby Johnny with the glasses kissed me on the playground and told me I was his girlfriend.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: On Madness and Mad Men

In my eight years as a Mad Men fan, the series has repeatedly prompted me to reflect on parenting.

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Housesitting

When you arrived, you reached under the mat to pick up the keys in an envelope. Inside, a note on the kitchen counter said help yourself to anything in the pantry or fridge.

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The Rumpus Interview with Deborah Reed

Author Deborah Reed discusses her latest novel, Olivay, the necessity of fire, Los Angeles anxiety, and how she found fulfillment at the edge of the American West.

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Spotlight: Matt Huynh’s The Boat

The Boat is an interactive graphic novel based on the acclaimed story by Nam Le. The project unites hand drawn artwork, animation, text, sound, and archive to explore this important moment in history.

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Shonen Knife - Let's Knife | Sound Takes

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Sound Takes: Let’s Knife

Analysis fails before this mysterious amalgam of silliness and sublimity. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for songs with cat whiskers in them.

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I’ll Fly Away: Notes on Economy Class Citizenship

I want to break from a continued and systematic white supremacy so pervasive it is entrenched in the vernacular I use to express myself.

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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant talks sex workers’ rights, labor politics, the novelty of women’s sexuality, and her book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: A Couple of Puzzles

This was the first pure poetry I ever knew. Sung out loud more or less to no one on a theme of longing. Wife. Sons. Rags. Snow. Stalks of corn.

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But Beautiful: My Life with Billie Holiday

I had to look back at the late nights when her voice has sung me out of sadness to sleep, back to those Saturday afternoons of my childhood, and ask myself what I had learned from her, as a musician and a woman.

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Yearbook #3: Sarah Gerard

In Yearbook #3, Sarah Gerard talks about writing Binary Star, going to her ten-year high school reunion stoned, and growing up on the south side of St. Petersburg, Florida.

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