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The Rumpus Interview with David Lipsky

David Lipsky, whose book was recently adapted into the movie The End of the Tour, discusses his career as a writer and journalist as it’s evolved in the twenty years since his road trip with David Foster Wallace.

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Dinty W. Moore

We live our lives and then relive them on the page in a relentless search for some nugget of discovery, some further comprehension of what it all means.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thunder, Thighs

Over one third of the women in my survey had been called “Thunder Thighs” at some point in their life. Many were still haunted by this. None of them interpreted “thunder” to mean “power.

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The Rumpus Interview with Yumi Sakugawa

Yumi Sakugawa discusses her latest book, Ikebana, discovering meditation, exploring blank spaces, and drawing a world of sentient oranges and one-eyed monsters.

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Albums of Our Lives: Guided by Voices’s Alien Lanes

For me, Bob Pollard became a messiah of the creative life, urging me forward for many years to come, in my new, somewhat shabby but inspired career.

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Make/Work Episode 35: Dru Farro

In Episode 35 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with scholar Dru Farro about his role on the fringes of academia, his deeply ingrained American reluctance to seek medical attention, and his eventual and abstract creative goals.

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The Last Book I Loved: After Birth

I wanted what Ari wanted: affirmation that I could be a good mother while making mistakes and having ugly, difficult thoughts.

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The Rumpus Interview with Christopher Bollen

Author Christopher Bollen talks about his sophomore novel, Orient, secrets and privacy, sexual orientation in fiction, and the lost art of the whodunit mystery.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ada Limón

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Ada Limón about her new book Bright Dead Things, writing love poems in an age of cynicism, and committing to places.

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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #1: For White Folks Who Think They Aren’t Racist

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Nerozumieš: You Don’t Understand

The best thing about living in a foreign country where I don’t speak the language is the ability to slide into solitude wherever I am.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #67: The Franchise Restaurants of Song

Musician Owen Ashworth on his new album, Nephew in the Wild, literary influences, self-expression in songwriting, and how becoming a father has changed his work.

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