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Lisa’s Book Round-Up

  • Lisa Mecham
  • January 21, 2014
I have an obsession with post-apocalyptic literature. There's something oddly reassuring about reading far-fetched accounts of the future.
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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel Alarcón

  • Catherine Brady
  • January 20, 2014
Daniel Alarcón talks about his latest novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, drawing inspiration from Bolaño and Chekhov, the writer's place of privilege, and the questions that arise from an imagined life that easily could have been.
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All Over Coffee #666

  • Paul Madonna
  • January 20, 2014
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Box Girl

  • Lizi Gilad
  • January 19, 2014
"I spent hours standing before the glass vitrine, trying to divine the magic, the answer, the power of the box." Lizi Gilad debuts on The Rumpus with a powerful poetic homage and meditation on permanence.
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The Prettiest Girls in the World Are Born in Alabama

  • Jenny Sadre-Orafai
  • January 17, 2014
Attention was painful for you then and is now. Your face, your body, your voice embarrass you to no end.
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Make/Work Episode 4: Jacopo Andreini

  • Scott Pinkmountain
  • January 17, 2014
In Episode 4 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with Italian musician Jacopo Andreini.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Traveling Sprinkler

  • Kevin Thomas
  • January 17, 2014
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
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The Rumpus Interview with Ming Holden

  • Nick Ripatrazone
  • January 16, 2014
Writer and development worker Ming Holden discusses her book The Survival Girls, a nonfiction novella that looks at the lives of a group of refugee women from Nairobi who use art and personal performance to combat systematic abuse.
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OG Dad #21: The Head Bang, the Hole In The Wall, and the Happy Fart

  • Jerry Stahl
  • January 16, 2014
My daughter likes to bang her head off the floor. It makes a point—an especially guilt-tinged one, given that we had to get rid of our carpets due to a mold infestation, so now there’s no cushion between baby cranium and wood.
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The Rumpus Interview with Scot Sothern

  • Shawna Kenney
  • January 15, 2014
LA-based photographer Scot Sothern talks about his decades-long career taking photos on the streets, and how his portraits of sex workers advocate on behalf of an often marginalized and misunderstood community.
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Faith

  • Yumi Sakugawa
  • January 15, 2014
Having faith in invisible cocoons.
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Defining

  • Robin McCarthy
  • January 14, 2014
She warns me not to speak any of these words out loud. They are so terrible, she explains, that good girls like me, and good women like her, never say them.
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