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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Aguero

  • Jessica Gross
  • January 29, 2013
Master storyteller and Moth regular Peter Aguero talks about family dysfunction, fighting with hammers, and how not to bomb onstage.
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A Snow Story

  • Jason Novak
  • January 28, 2013
Neither of us had seen civilization since last spring...
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #169

  • Ted Wilson
  • January 28, 2013
PEPÈ LE PEW ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Pepé Le Pew.
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Field Trip to the Earthquake Lab, 2010

  • Steven Church
  • January 28, 2013
The plan was not to cause an earthquake. The USGS would tell you that this is nearly impossible. They would tell you that humans are just too insignificant to affect the seismicity of our planet.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kat Meads

  • Lidia Yuknavitch
  • January 27, 2013
Lidia Yuknavitch talks with her former Chiasmus author, Kat Meads, about her new novel, For You, Madam Lenin, plots a publishing revolution, and asks, "Is feminism dead or just in dire need of a blow job?"
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Saturday Rumpus Interview With Ben Strader

  • Micah Perks
  • January 26, 2013
I wondered what that must be like, spending not a month at a writer's colony, but your whole life.
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Saturday Rumpus Essay: Art at Work

  • Michael Berger
  • January 26, 2013
Even while the work just barely paid my bills, I had to make it work for me on an entirely different level. I knew art could transform so much meaninglessness.
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The Lonely Voice #22: RIP Richard Stern

  • Peter Orner
  • January 25, 2013
Richard Stern has died. Stern was a short story writer, novelist, and essayist. I’ve always been particularly fond of Stern’s short stories, which are as emotionally raw as they are…
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All Over Coffee #617

  • Paul Madonna
  • January 25, 2013
"Do you know what my favorite part of a story is?"
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The Rumpus Interview with Jill McDonough

  • Mojie Crigler
  • January 25, 2013
Poet Jill McDonough chats about teaching in prisons, controversial art exhibits, getting lost in research, and writing fifty sonnets about American executions.
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Running Away from Running Away

  • Jill Talbot
  • January 25, 2013
The Traveler’s Inn is a motor lodge on Reserve Street in Missoula, Montana, and the tired lady behind the desk is asking me how long I plan to stay. I…
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Literary Puns, Round II

  • Timothy Leo Taranto
  • January 25, 2013
If you enjoyed our first round of illustrated puns, don’t miss out on Pablo Nerutabaga, Anaïs Ninja, Leo Toystory, Sylvia Plathypus, and company.
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