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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Nick Lantz

For our first episode of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with poet and playwright Nick Lantz to talk about his latest collection, How To Dance as the Roof Caves In, found poems, self-help manuals, and titles as points of departure.

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Hacking the Haggadah

This year I'm hacking the Haggadah again: collaging together a text from books and the Internet that captures the beautiful spirit of the ritual as I see it. At least the way I see it this year.

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Solidly Mid-List

So what happened? How did I get here? That’s really the mystery of this whole business, this amazing adventure we call writing.

David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter I

Poetry Wire continues its exploration of how one might become a poet in the modern world, how one traverses between the creative realm and daily experience.

The Rumpus Interview with Fred D’Aguiar

British-Guyanese poet, novelist, and playwright Fred D'Aguiar discusses the influence of Jonestown on his work, writing in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, and the need to pay attention when tragedy comes to your door.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #228

AUDIO MAPS ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing audio maps.

SELF-MADE MAN #29: Ghosts

I dodge taxis and drunk college kids near Astor Place and think how sweet to be a man in motion on a Saturday night; man formed of needles and a hundred sweaty locker rooms; a man without translation; a man who invents himself.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Adrift

Carefree days of sunbathing topless and reading Salinger comes to an abrupt turning point when the young Serber must choose between starting a writing program she's dreamed of vs. playing house--and playing it safe--on her lover's sailboat.

THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: WONDER BOYS BY MICHAEL CHABON

Michael Chabon's career is often the work of a writer hell-bent on destroying the line between "literary" and "genre," and his most famous work is an epic adventure novel about comic-book creators.

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The Language of Desire

The alchemy of desire is much harder to master, its falls more tragic. And yet our language for it is maddeningly woolly. The great poets have striven for clarity here but most of us are doomed

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Why We Binge

The average Netflix subscriber streams 87 minutes of video a day—four episodes of a half-hour comedy. We don’t just binge because it’s something to do and we’ve got time to kill. There is something deeper going on.

The Rumpus Interview with Fiona Maazel

Writer Fiona Maazel talks about her love for the "sad, lonely, self-loathing guy," the appeal of cults, setting her latest novel in the wildly divergent worlds of North Korea and Cincinnati, and her current fascination with neuroprosthetics.

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