Rumpus Original
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Changeling
The story of how I wrote my second novel begins in 1999, when my four-year-old daughter Anna had a minor accident that caused massive intercranial bleeding.
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Mistress Morgana Maye’s Holiday Gift Guide For Perverts
I’ll let you in on a little secret: your sweetie doesn’t want socks or a new Roku.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer discusses the environment, his childhood, and the conception and conclusion of his Southern Reach Trilogy.
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Make/Work Episode 23: Katherine Ball
In episode 23 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with the artist/activist Katherine Ball about the importance of the “yes” and the “no” and the poetry in creative activism.
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MFA vs. SNL
The best writers learn their craft in unexpected places, even from the foot of an improv stage.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Turner
Brian Turner discusses his new memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, the Iraq War, poetry and prose, and his family’s long history of serving in the military.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran chats with the Rumpus Book Club about how Wolverhampton has changed over the years, the forthcoming film version of her new novel How to Build a Girl, chapatis, and how Blur hogs the pool table.
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What About Bob?
The King of the Sidetrack, the Master of the Interview Hijack, a Self-Described Hack and One Lovable Sad Sack, Mister Bob Mack
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #261
A BABY I SAW ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a baby I saw.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #59: Not a Folk Singer
There is a lot to learn from Vashti Bunyan, therefore, about how to live a self-designed life, and how to be unapologetic and decisive about the habit of songwriting.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A New and Magical Life
When she becomes pregnant while grieving her newly dead father, Amy Monticello rejects the comforting notions she’s offered about completing the cycle of life.
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Mexican Enough?
I’m from South Texas. I’ve taken Chicano literature courses. I’ve helped organize symposiums featuring Mexican and Mexican-American authors. But I had never heard of Amado Muro.