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The Rumpus Interview with Fiona Maazel
Writer Fiona Maazel talks about her love for the “sad, lonely, self-loathing guy,” the appeal of cults, setting her latest novel in the wildly divergent worlds of North Korea and Cincinnati, and her current fascination with neuroprosthetics.
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Let Nothing Ye Dismay or The Eternal Self-Hatred of the Abused Child’s Mind
He was prone to declarations of position on matters that mattered to him, and religion was no exception.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chad Harbach
Chad Harbach sits down to talk about MFA vs NYC and its ongoing debate, co-founding the literary magazine n+1, and the intuitive process behind looking at your own work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Urquhart
Writer Rachel Urquhart discusses her novel The Visionist, the complex nature of Shaker society, the use of restraint when writing about violence, and what it means to “write like a man.”
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FUNNY WOMEN #114: M.A.S.H for Adults
Since you already live in a shack, scratch out “S.” It would be nice to move on to bigger, or at least better, things. But also scratch out “M” — you’re an adult now, and it’s time to adjust your…
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The Rumpus Interview with Efrim Menuck
Efrim Menuck, the Canadian musician behind Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, talks about music journalism, writing grooves, anarchy, and the apocalypse.
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Third Drink Decisions
In the years before he showed up in Lubbock, he wandered the streets of downtown Dallas near Fair Park.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #227
OSCAR THE GROUCH ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Oscar the Grouch.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Mitchell S. Jackson
Cullen Thomas sits down with Mitchell S. Jackson to discuss The Residue Years, overlooked and ignored communities, studying with Gordon Lish, and writing dangerously.
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Begin Here: Post-Factum
When French novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras died on March 3, 1996, she was probably as prepared as any of us can be. Between November, 1994 and August, 1995 she had written a short, 54 page impossible to find book…
