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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #4: Keep the Change

  • Charles Kruger
  • August 26, 2016
This week, your Storming Bohemian has moved to a new house. Again. And so some reflections: There is much to be said for stability, I know. The steady quiet observation…
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Jera Brown

  • Jera Brown
  • June 14, 2016
I wanted to uncover the nest of wires comprising my gender identity and describe its complicated mass.
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On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood

  • Janet Frishberg
  • May 19, 2016
One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”
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The Self as a Cultural Artifact

  • Kyle Williams
  • May 2, 2016
[Memoir] comes alive at the fissures of its coherency: when a narrator is struggling to hold the self together in a text—for the reader’s sake if not also her own.…
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Ursa Major

  • Anne Elizabeth O'Regan
  • February 12, 2016
Last month a bear ripped into my tent, clenched his teeth onto my upper left arm, just below my shoulder, and would not let go.
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The Rumpus Interview with Yumi Sakugawa

  • Mia Nakaji Monnier
  • September 18, 2015
Yumi Sakugawa discusses her latest book, Ikebana, discovering meditation, exploring blank spaces, and drawing a world of sentient oranges and one-eyed monsters.
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Sometimes Still

  • Ari Messer
  • June 25, 2010
In three different rooms on two coasts, artist Darren Almond is practicing visual alchemy. One thing he does is take long exposures on full moons in ridiculously remote locations. Another…
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