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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds: Observations on the Occasion of a 100th Column

  • Rick Moody
  • December 3, 2020
The clash of opinions about music is music itself.
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Re-Contextualizing Dolly Parton in Her Full Glory: Talking with Sarah Smarsh

  • A. Malone
  • October 23, 2020
Sarah Smarsh discusses her new book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL.
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  • Music
  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #103: Song Turned Blue

  • Rick Moody
  • May 14, 2020
I’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
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Telling the Story of Now: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli

  • E.P. Floyd
  • February 15, 2019
Valeria Luiselli discusses her new novel, LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE.
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Bring on Your Wrecking Balls

  • Harry Harris
  • February 15, 2018
There is hope, and hopelessness, whenever wrecking balls are sung.
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America Again

  • Lara Downes
  • October 20, 2016
I felt urgently that it was the moment to tell the story of what I’ve learned about American music—or maybe about being an American.
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Sound Takes: Deep Below Heaven | Melaena Cadiz
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Sound Takes: Deep Below Heaven & Rumpus Video Premiere

  • Amish Trivedi
  • July 9, 2015
Featuring an exclusive video premiere for Melaena Cadiz's "Deep Below Heaven," and an in-depth look at the new album.
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Matt Jones - The Deep Enders | Albums of Our Lives
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Albums of Our Lives: Matt Jones’s The Deep Enders

  • Rachel Button
  • June 4, 2015
Matt Jones writes haunting songs. February songs. Songs that get under my skin and seep into my short stories. Songs that remind me of the rust belt and the south...
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The Rumpus Review of Calipatria

  • Heather Quinn
  • May 30, 2014
At the heart of the short film Calipatria is an ever-present sense of malice that hangs over the landscape and surrounds this young woman, on her own in this ominous desert town.
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