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Breaking Bad

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Himpathy for a Horse

  • Sara Fredman
  • November 7, 2018
Have we come to bury the antihero, or to praise him?
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Basura

  • Emily Withnall
  • September 21, 2017
[T]erms like "white trash" and basura most accurately reveal those who are doing the defining. Consider what we throw away, and why. Look at what we throw away. Think about the reasons why.
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Digging for Characters: A Conversation with Sonya Chung

  • Maria Anderson
  • May 31, 2017
Sonya Chung discusses her latest novel The Loved Ones, the mental space required to wander around fictional worlds, and looking back at her childhood.
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The Pyrite Age Of Television

  • Adam Keller
  • February 19, 2016
Prestige dramas like Breaking Bad and The Wire have set the standard for narrative TV programming on streaming services and premium cable networks, but network TV is another story. The…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alida Nugent

  • Jaime Herndon
  • February 10, 2016
Alida Nugent talks about her new book You Don’t Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism, the messiness and realness of sex and sexuality, and putting likeability last.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sharon Oard Warner

  • Brenna Gomez
  • December 14, 2015
Sharon Oard Warner discusses her latest book, Sophie’s House of Cards, Breaking Bad, how a sense of place informs fiction, and the Republican war on Planned Parenthood.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel

  • Kyle Lucia Wu
  • October 19, 2015
Lincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: On Madness and Mad Men

  • Caroline Smith
  • September 26, 2015
In my eight years as a Mad Men fan, the series has repeatedly prompted me to reflect on parenting.
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Why We Binge

  • Connor Ferguson
  • April 4, 2014
The average Netflix subscriber streams 87 minutes of video a day—four episodes of a half-hour comedy. We don’t just binge because it’s something to do and we’ve got time to kill. There is something deeper going on.
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TV Can Be Literature Too

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 30, 2013
Long-running, writer-driven shows have overtaken American cinema as the most prestigious strand of American visual culture, revealing most of even the supposedly best American movies as risk-averse, unimaginative, and hopelessly bound…
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What to Read When There’s No More Breaking Bad

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 28, 2013
With the series finale of Breaking Bad drawing ever closer, we’re looking for new ways to get our drug-story fix. That’s why we were as excited as Aaron Paul on The Price…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carmen Giménez Smith

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 6, 2012
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Carmen Giménez Smith about her poetry collection Goodbye, Flicker.
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