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Rumpus Original Fiction: Out on the Coast

  • David Rice
  • February 27, 2015
When he was five, six, seven, and eight, Max spent most of the summer thinking about the whale, sitting in his room with the shades drawn remembering the first visit and looking forward to the second, just before the new school year.
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Out of the Swollen Sea

  • Tammy Delatorre
  • February 25, 2015
I think of a story I might write: about a daughter who loses her father to the sea. She grows progressively more melancholy; her dreams haunted by man-o-war, stingray, and poisonous rockfish.
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The Rumpus Interview with Benjamin Parzybok

  • David Breithaupt
  • February 25, 2015
Author Benjamin Parzybok talks about his new novel, Sherwood Nation, climate fiction, the difference between post-collapse and post-apocalyptic, and how novels can predict the future if they try hard enough (and get lucky).
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FUNNY WOMEN #126: “Still Life with Chairs,” an Exhibit

  • Erin Clune
  • February 24, 2015
As you tour this short exhibit, ask yourself: Which compositions best represent the still life: Fruit or modern humanity, fast on its way to being killed, eventually, by chairs?
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AWP 2015 Offsite Event: GUTTER TALK

  • Rumpus Events
  • February 24, 2015
The Rumpus and Fence are proud to present GUTTER TALK, an AWP 2015 offsite event!
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Inner Resources

  • Nicole Walker
  • February 24, 2015
To stop yourself from killing yourself, you stir things up a bit. Change your basic weather patterns. Find the ocean inside of you.
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #273

  • Ted Wilson
  • February 23, 2015
MY RETURNED PUPPY! ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my returned puppy!
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

  • Amy Feltman
  • February 23, 2015
Author Laura van den Berg talks to the Rumpus about why she thinks America is obsessed with dystopias, the intersection of surrealism and realism in her work, and choosing an ambiguous ending for her new novel, Find Me.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: What Do You Bring Pauline?

  • Elizabeth Tannen
  • February 22, 2015
Hoping to gain some insight into the nature of love and family, Elizabeth Tannen begins to visit the elderly woman who was once like a grandmother to her and who now has Alzheimer's.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Fat Girl’s Benediction

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • February 21, 2015
Why couldn’t I accept my body for what it wanted to be? It’s what I harped on the rest of the world to do.
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The Rumpus Interview with David Shields and Caleb Powell

  • Edie Meidav
  • February 20, 2015
Writers David Shields and Caleb Powell can't stop fighting, even about their new book-length argument and forthcoming film, I Think You're Totally Wrong.
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Make/Work Episode 28: Pamela Z

  • Scott Pinkmountain
  • February 19, 2015
In episode 28 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with the composer/performer Pamela Z about her penchant for databases, life without a security net, and the benefits of the one-a-day Squickie.
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