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The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa

  • Catherine Cusick
  • July 20, 2016
Comedian Sara Benincasa opens up about her latest book Real Artists Have Day Jobs, adjusting to success, Venn-diagramming love, and the loss of Morley Safer.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #1: Are We Amused Yet?

  • Charles Kruger
  • July 15, 2016
Here is something I’ve always believed: Just knowing I am an artist, asserting that identity, is more important than what I produce. It is a victory in itself.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch

  • Alden Jones
  • July 13, 2015
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her latest book, The Small Backs of Children, war, art, the chaos of experience, and that photograph of the vulture stalking the dying child in the Sudan that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Story of an Artist

  • Guia Cortassa
  • December 4, 2014
“You don’t have to be at the mercy of the muse. You need your own internalized thinking process that you can perform again and again.” Although Lena abandoned her desire…
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Feel Validated, Artists

  • The Rumpus
  • April 9, 2014
The biggest myth we are fed as artists is that we need to sustain ourselves solely on our art. This is ridiculous. Every artist has at some point in time…
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The Freedom to Fail

  • Ashley Perez
  • February 7, 2014
Recording artist Moby writes over at The Guardian about why he needed to leave New York and come to Los Angeles for his art. Los Angles gave him the room…
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