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Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with Megan Boyle

On the evening of July 27 I interviewed Megan Boyle over gchat. Rather than prepare questions or focus on a specific topic, we used Wikipedia’s “random article” link to go…

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Why I Chose Kingdom Animalia

Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:

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In his new epistolary novel, Dignity, about a new community founded in the unpaved cul-de-sacs and abandoned unfinished houses of the California desert, Ken Layne criticizes the material obsessions of contemporary capitalism.

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The Rumpus Interview with Richard Kline

Though best known as Larry Dallas, the smarmy and morally flexible neighbor to Jack, Chrissy and Janet on television’s Three’s Company,

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WHERE I WRITE #14: A Green Room in Gujarat

The wall in front of the desk is a greenish turquoise. The painters came and finished the whole flat in just a few hours, and you can see where the…

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A Box, or Paradox, A Language Game

Tesser’s chapbook slips outside certainties, authorities, controls, leaving her reader-players loose to enact their own language game, re-encountering the inherent antic plasticity of words and meanings.

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The Rumpus Interview with Onur Tukel

Midway through June, I was sent a screener of Septien and asked if a piece on the film could find a home in ESPN the Magazine. Septien is an uneasy…

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The Eyes of Ginger Pritt

The first novel from poet Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners is a coming-of-age tale told in riveting prose.

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Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.

Every day, terrible things happen in the world. Every damn day too many people die or suffer for reasons that defy comprehension.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #95

THE HAMBURGLAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Hamburglar.

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Albums of Our Lives: Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black

Amy Winehouse was my contemporary—exactly my age, 27, when she was found dead at her London home on July 23.

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Whisk in the Mouth

Editor’s Note: We don’t usually run reviews that are conversations between two writers, and we don’t usually run reviews on Saturday, so you’re getting a doubly special treat today. Here…

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Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with Megan Boyle

Why I Chose Kingdom Animalia

Populist Fatalism

The Rumpus Interview with Richard Kline

WHERE I WRITE #14: A Green Room in Gujarat

A Box, or Paradox, A Language Game

The Rumpus Interview with Onur Tukel

The Eyes of Ginger Pritt

Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.

Ted Wilson Reviews the World #95

Albums of Our Lives: Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black

Whisk in the Mouth

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