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Kill Bill is revolutionary because it disrupts both content and genre, beautifully showcasing what these superhero-action stories so consistently overlook, while embodying the success of what the genre could achieve.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jeremy Hawkins

Author Jeremy Hawkins discusses his debut novel, The Last Days of Video, the resurgence of the independent bookstore industry, and allowing nostalgia to have presence but not precedence in one’s life.

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F*** the Myth of Motivation

The motivation crisis is different for each place on the path, but it is as toxic as it is ubiquitous.

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Nirvana - Nevermind | Albums of Our Lives

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Albums of Our Lives: Nirvana’s Nevermind

The first time I listened to Nevermind, I sat on the bathroom floor with the liner notes and jewel case open on my lap.

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The Incompletist

I was excited to see the New York Times’s announcement that a regular column by the writer Geoff Dyer called “Reading Life” would be appearing in their weekend Book Review. I was even more intrigued and, somehow, encouraged, when eventually it appeared only three times.

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The Rumpus Interview with Kara Richardson Whitely

Author Kara Richardson Whitely discusses her new memoir, Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds, surviving food addiction and the trauma of being molested, and what comes next.

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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Shadow Must Be Paid

A poet lives through the writing of poems inside his or her animal or sexual sides as a way to honor that aspect of our humanity.

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R.I.P.: Washington Phillips

As a culture, we tend to place more significance on the mystique of death than the actual event. We avoid considering the details: the transportation of the body down to the morgue, the excising of the organs, the decay of the skin within the tomb.

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Body of Words

Standing at the pool’s edge, he planted his eyes on the V-shape of my body where my legs met at my hips, where I felt the water drip. I saw his brown irises turn hard and hungry.

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The Rumpus Interview with Matthew Baker

"Master fictioneer" Matthew Baker talks about his new middle grade novel, If You Find This, artists as tricksters, his favorite comic strips, and why children are still capable of believing in impossible things.

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