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Posts Tagged: absurdity

The Rumpus Interview with Laurie Foos

By Lyz Lenz

December 16th, 2015

Laurie Foos discusses her latest novel, The Blue Girl, feminism, Michael Jackson, and mythical moon pies.

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Tags: absurdity, Alice Munro, Cate Marvin, Cheryl Strayed, coffee house press, Elvis Presley, Erin Belieu, Ex Utero, female body, feminism, fertility, fiction, first lines, Interviews, kafka, Laurie Foos, lyz lenz, Metamorphosis, michael jackson, motherhood, mothers and daughters, pop culture, Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist, Roxane Gay, satire, The Blue Girl, The Weird, Thomas Ligotti, Twinship, vida count, writing

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Taking Comfort in Futurama

By Katie Anderson Howell

November 7th, 2015

I’m a comfort watcher… I retreat into the worlds I know well, with characters that are friends, with outcomes I already understand.

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Tags: 20th century, abortion, absurdity, academia, adjunct, adjuncts, amazon, anti-choice, Bender, binge-watching, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, children, college, comfort TV, dvds, Fry, Futurama, Katie Anderson Howell, Leela, motherhood, Netflix, New New York, Nibbler, Planet Eternium, Planet Express, postpartum depression, ppd, pro-choice, teaching, television, the future, TV, university, writing, Yellow Wallpaper, Zoidberg

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