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On Living Apart Together
Can we make a lasting love that won’t offer the luxury of ignoring one another, as cohabitating couples can? Can we settle down together, apart?
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The Rumpus Interview with Gregory Rabassa
Responsible for introducing American readers to One Hundred Years of Solitude and a large portion of the Latin American literary canon, award-winning translator Gregory Rabassa discusses the state of translation today and much more.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #48: Trying Not to Stare at the Sun
Rick Moody talks to novelist and musician Wesley Stace about his career-defining, game-changing new album Self-Titled.
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Fantasy Football For Poets: Week 3
Why wouldn’t we have a fantasy football column on a literary website?
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The Rumpus Interview with Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash talks shop about writing short stories, why one person’s “unlikeable” character may be another’s “lovable,” and what makes writers dangerous.
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Thank You Much
What do you want when you are young and itching with anticipation for the life you’ve always imagined yourself living? Everything. You want everything.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #199
TOUPEES ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing toupees.
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Missed #1: The Lucinda Rosenfeld Problem
In the July 3, 2000 New Yorker, the debut fiction issue, there was a photo of a young woman on the steps of a brownstone. Her story was terrifying, erotic, and not quite like anything I’d read before.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Moon Over Egypt
In America we are explicitly taught that a healthy kind of love is a removed love…Love is the area outside of suffering, not within it…For me the experience of love has always been more primal than this…love is fire. It’s…
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Love Me Anyway by Tiffany Hawk
Now and then it’s nice to read about characters whose lives actually revolve around the grueling demands of work.
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Diamonds and Rust: Summer Music Fests, Small Luxuries, and the Open Road
Those rare flashes of vivid scenes burned in my memory, which create the mythos for my five-day adventure journeying to Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2013.
