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Paying to Play: Interview with a John

  • Antonia Crane
  • June 6, 2012
To use a tennis analogy, I played all four corners in an attempt to interview clients. I hit up escort friends of mine with long-terms regulars, old clients who were articulate and thoughtful and guys I’d never met who had contacted me with sex work-related questions.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carmen Giménez Smith

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 6, 2012
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Carmen Giménez Smith about her poetry collection Goodbye, Flicker.
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Turning Points: Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris

  • Larry Fahey
  • June 6, 2012
Marlon Brando was the greatest film actor of the 20th century, and a failure.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sheila Heti

  • William Fitzpatrick
  • June 5, 2012
The second time I meet Sheila Heti I’m standing outside the gated front yard of her home on a cold, sunny day in Toronto. The overgrowth and general unkemptness of…
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FUNNY WOMEN #79: Books Outselling Mine in the Amazon Kindle Sales Rank

  • Caitlin Horrocks
  • June 5, 2012
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There Are Things Your Hands Have Yet to Learn

  • Rob H. Dawson
  • June 5, 2012
You have never played a video game before in your life, and when your friend hands you a boxy gray controller, turns on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and walks away,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #138

  • Ted Wilson
  • June 4, 2012
GROUNDHOG DAY ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Groundhog Day.
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The Rumpus Interview with Dave Eggers

  • Stephen Elliott
  • June 4, 2012
Dave Eggers's new novel, A Hologram For The King, (due out from McSweeney's June 28) is set in Saudi Arabia.
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Sunday Rumpus Interview: Joshua Mohr and Michelle Haimoff

  • Joshua Mohr
  • June 3, 2012
Two nocturnal authors talk shop about insomnia.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brett Walker

  • Joen Madonna
  • June 1, 2012
“Put yourself in a frame of mind that you can allow whatever’s going to happen, happen, and be okay with it. If you walk into a room and immediately put up walls, you’ll never find the doors.”
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #36: This Is Bob Dylan to Me

  • Rick Moody
  • June 1, 2012
The Rumpus has made it possible for me to talk to a lot of musicians I might not otherwise have met, but meeting Mike Watt, founding member of The Minutmen,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Chloe Caldwell

  • Steve Almond
  • May 31, 2012
I first saw Chloe Caldwell do her thing a year ago. She read an essay about an orgy she’d participated in and how much she’d enjoyed the orgy, and the…
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