Rumpus Original
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The Rumpus Interview with Frederic Rzewski
Composer Frederic Rzewski talks about his masterpiece The People United Will Never Be Defeated, writing and playing classical music, and performing his music in an unusual venue—a fish market.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Patrick O’Neil
Patrick O’Neil talks about his debut memoir Gun Needle Spoon, being big in France, the drug/recovery genre, and writing through trauma.
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Rumpus Video Premiere: The Size Queens’s To The Country
An exclusive video premiere of The Size Queens’s To the Country, a two-song sampler featuring the titular track, “To The Country,” along with “Hands and Knees.”
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
But of course, our world isn’t actually dead yet. This is fiction, and we’re watching a movie.
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The Lonely Voice #30: Brief Early Morning Thoughts on Ahab
I find that lately I do more reading than writing, and more thinking than either.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Cohen
Novelist Joshua Cohen gives an interview, digital, about his new novel, paper, but also digital, about the Internet, digital, subsuming the novel, even his novel, best on paper, Book of Numbers.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Greg Saunier’s Tour Survival Kit
In the first installment of Wanted/Needed/Loved, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof talks about the items he can’t live (or tour) without.
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Paper Trumpets #24: Girl & Boys
One of my favorite revelations from the past year has been the discovery of old high school yearbooks.
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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel Torday
Dan Torday talks about his novel, The Last Flight of Poxl West, the role of fear in fiction, the fabrication of facts in a memoir, and about being “constitutionally unoffendable.”
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The Last Poems I Loved: John Berryman’s Dream Songs #265 and #279
I have a tendency to read difficult books when my life is difficult.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #66: The Library of Babel
I want to propose a fine recent example of the gesamtkuntsler, the total artist, in Paul de Jong, the cellist, composer, collagist, archivist, and former member of the band The Books.
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My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories
She pauses and says it again. “In my head, I live in my dollhouse.”