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The Rumpus Interview with Scott Hutchins

Longtime Rumpus contributor Scott Hutchins discusses his debut novel, A Working Theory of Love, the Turing test, instant messaging chatbots, and whether technology is actually in danger of isolating and alienating people.

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Cut

I needed to see what was in there, what was making my skin feel so unattached from my body, from the tissue that lies underneath.

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz is the most interesting kind of… hmm… I was going to use the word “genius,” but maybe that’s not quite right for a man who spends seventeen years honing one brilliant book.

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COMIQUES: Seasonal

"This aimless dissatisfaction..."

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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Ries

Rachel Ries is a singer/songwriter from South Dakota with a homespun style, hand-sewing fabric sleeves for limited edition EPs and selling homemade jam at shows. Her music is an exquisite…

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Sister

It is as if a great house has fallen―sunk into the mire which seethes around the ancestral manor, amid an unrecognizable, Martian landscape. The narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” has no name, no real structural substance beyond his vague association with this other guy, an old friend of his.

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OG DAD #12: Inherit the Wind

A baby is like a Rorschach. An occasionally adorable, periodically screamy blob onto which we project our own fears, delights and inner damage. Or something.

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Sense of Place #1: Amy Lawless, Casa Magazines

A new series from photographer Brad DeCecco, Sense of Place captures authors in places that hold significance to their writing selves or their writing itself.

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The Rumpus Interview with Kristín Ómarsdóttir

Icelandic poet, novelist, and playwright Kristín Ómarsdóttir discusses her 2004 novel, Children in Reindeer Woods, which was recently translated into English.

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I Don’t See You

When I was younger, through the grace of a small business loan, my father started his own grocery store on the East Side of Waterloo. As I grew up, I…

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The Big Idea: Dr. Neal Barnard

Dr. Neal Barnard, who has advocated for animal protection and veganism for the past thirty years, discusses what motivates people to adopt veganism, the idea that humans are natural carnivores, and what’s really involved in producing animal-derived food.

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FUNNY WOMEN #86: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis

Did Steve Harvey's bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man resonate with you? Then you'll LOVE its nature-inspired spinoff, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis.

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