Rumpus Exclusive: “Lisbon, the Truncated City”
Our love of the superfluous is helpful in better understanding ourselves.
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Posts Tagged: Angola
Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal and Excerpt from Home Making
An exclusive cover reveal + excerpt from Lee Matalone’s debut, HOME MAKING.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Billy Sinclair
Former death-row inmate, legendary jailhouse lawyer, and co-editor for the award-winning The Angolite newspaper Billy Sinclair looks back on his prison experience and discusses what his priorities are now.
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The Rumpus Interview with Banning Eyre
Producer, senior editor, Afropop expert, and author Banning Eyre talks about his new book, Lion Songs, a 15-years-in-the-making biography of Zimbabwe’s legendary musician Thomas Mapfumo.
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Sunday at the Angola Prison Rodeo
Driving onto Angola’s grounds in early October, hay bales dot flat green fields and quaint white barns rise in their midst. Fountains spew from the placid rectangles of designer catfish ponds. If we didn’t know we were entering a state penitentiary, we might think we were on a plantation or a golf course,
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