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The Big Idea: Fady Joudah
Suzanne Koven speaks to Palestinian American physician and poet Fady Joudah about poetry and politics, text and context, and the marginalization of the “other” in the literary world.
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The Rumpus Interview with T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle, who has now written over twenty books, talks to The Rumpus about his most recent short story collection, four decades of cooking up high-grade literary tales, the importance of performance during readings, and life at the Iowa Writers’…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Hodgman
Comedian, writer, and performer John Hodgman sits down with The Rumpus to chat about channeling Ayn Rand, his Secret Society shows, giving himself permission to open up, and being a product of the Internet.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sari Botton
We sit down with Sari Botton, long-time Rumpus contributor and author of our “Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me” column, to talk about her new anthology, Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, and more.
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Under the Table
The headaches, my difficulty focusing, my specimen-daze, that floating island, my spastic, nervous heart—which are side effects from drinking, and which were inevitable?
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Coming Out, Again and Again, in 27 Easy Steps
1. Pretend it’s okay that your birth certificate labels you as female. You know perfectly well you’re not.
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Elizabeth Minkel’s “Racetrack Diary”
No stranger to writing about sports, The Millions’ Elizabeth Minkel’s latest work was inspired by her summer job working at a horse racetrack in upstate New York. In the final essay for her “Racetrack Diary” column, she writes about the…
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Interview with Katie Kitamura
It’s as insulting to men as it is to women…Writing can’t be gendered in that way. In an interview about her latest book (Gone to the Forest), Katie Kitamura discusses her frustrations with the idea of masculine versus feminine writing.
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Spotlight: Ben Nadler and Alyssa Berg
Writer Ben Nadler and illustrator Alyssa Berg team up on a graphic story titled “The Broadway Express.”