Rumpus Original
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The Rumpus Interview with Mia Alvar
Author Mia Alvar discusses her debut short story collection, In the Country, fictional motherhood, literature’s role in society, and the limits of belonging to a place.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Steve Stern
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Steve Stern about his new novel The Pinch, about what it means for Jews to be “people of the book,” and how fiction and history can be entwined in entertaining and challenging ways.
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The Last Book I Loved: Home
I’ve been drawn to Morrison lately because I’ve been thinking about historical and social wakes as I’ve felt the swaying of the ones I’m in.
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What We Want Now
Near the end of my Disney tenure, I filched a Magic Music Days sign from the Epcot entrance and hands shaking, brought it to a tattoo artist.
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The Rumpus Interview with Etgar Keret
Writer Etgar Keret talks about his new memoir The Seven Good Years, the early criticism he faced as a writer, and the surreal that is always waiting.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: How to Publish Your Short Story in Thirty Years or Less
Listen carefully; there’s music in the air.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo discusses feminism, coloring, badass women, and being a troller of trolls.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Mohr and Janis Cooke Newman
Authors Joshua Mohr and Janis Cooke Newman talk with one another about their new novels, All This Life and A Master Plan for Rescue, respectively.
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Sound Takes: Live at the London Palladium
Love it or hate it, if you listen to Live at the London Palladium, you’re going to get intimate with Marvin Gaye.
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Seven Almonds
The first thing my parents bought when they earned money in America was a giant bag of almonds as a talisman for success.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kate Walbert
Author Kate Walbert talks about her new novel, The Sunken Cathedral, about the way cities change over time, and her approach to using footnotes in fiction.
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FUNNY WOMEN #131: Writing Prompts for Girls and Women
Write a character who can walk home alone at night while feeling unafraid.