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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #149: Susan Orlean

  • Melissa Batchelor Warnke
  • October 11, 2018
“I believe a writer should know a lot more than what she puts on the page.”
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On Searching for Honesty in Writing: An Interview with Blake Nelson

  • Jesse Sposato
  • August 11, 2017
Blake Nelson discusses his new book, Boy, letting his characters find their own fates, and possibly, maybe, being just the right amount of famous.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Damian Duffy and John Jennings

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 22, 2017
Damian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic novel Kindred.
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I Love(d) Dick, but Not the Show

  • Emily Bogin
  • December 1, 2016
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to convey the arc of a series of letters in a TV show. Words flash on the screen at regular intervals in bright Helvetica.
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Meaty on TV

  • Rosamund Lannin
  • October 3, 2016
Cable television channel FX has purchased Meaty, a comedy series based on Samantha Irby’s memoir of the same title. Developed by Irby, Jessi Klein (head writer for Inside Amy Schumer, author…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • September 2, 2016
For a story in a different medium this week, check out Amber Sparks’s “Thirteen Ways to Destroy a Painting” from this year’s The Unfinished World—adapted to a radio play. It’s brought…
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Remaking Historical Memory

  • Michelle Vider
  • May 23, 2016
For JSTOR Daily, Ellen C. Caldwell examines historical “memory-making” and our changing interpretations of historical events over time. Caldwell focuses on the 1746 Battle of Culloden, a battle that ended the…
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Wires Crossed

  • Roxie Pell
  • March 1, 2016
By this point, the relationship between books and television is complicated enough to merit its own Netflix series. Or its own book. Or maybe both: Like lovers who share an…
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Binge-Watching Bolaño

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 2, 2016
The latest installment in the trend of adapting the unadaptable is none other than Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, a sprawling, digressive novel to which director Robert Falls has allotted five hours…
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A Misreading of Misery

  • P.E. Garcia
  • November 20, 2015
NPR traces the history of Stephen King’s Misery from the novel, to the film, and, most recently, to the stage, and argues that this journey may have caused the story t0 lose…
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Nintendo IQ84

  • Roxie Pell
  • October 20, 2015
The world is a horrible place, full of bleak scenes and ghastly characters. Fill your eyeballs instead with the infinitely more appealing magical realist world of this Murakami-inspired video game.
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Too Excited for Words

  • Stephanie Bento
  • August 19, 2015
Have you heard the good news? Singer-songwriter Patti Smith’s memoir, Just Kids, about her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, is going to be made into a mini-series. The Guardian reported that…
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