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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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HEAVY-HANDED: Edits

I can hear you smiling and it sounds ugly

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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 not a sigh; it’s a wail, one part caress and one part claw.

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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.

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HORN! REVIEWS: In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!

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