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Balancing the Heart and Mind: Ryan Lee Wong’s Which Side Are You On

Which Side Are You On is a novel both of the heart and the mind: one that makes you think and question your perception of the world and your place in it, and feel deeply and fervently about what matters to you.

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The Rumpus Interview with Imbolo Mbue

Imbolo Mbue discusses her debut novel Behold the Dreamers, teaching herself how to write a novel, and the price of the American Dream.

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Voting Across the Pages

The political becoming local and, in effect, personal, is what I think we saw playing out all across Columbia last week. If Ocosingo War Diary teaches us anything, it’s that…

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The Rumpus Interview with Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasm discusses his debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage, the bombing of civilians during the war in Sri Lanka, documenting war crimes, and powerful Tamil women.

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The Rumpus Interview with Manuel Gonzales

Manuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.

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Deep Conditioning with Wilson Phillips

“Don’t become a professor,” he said. “I’d rather you become a garbage man. They get paid more and have better benefits.”

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Vanessa Blakeslee

I don’t want to waste readers’ time with a several hundred-page novel that’s not relevant to the wicked problems we’re facing today.

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Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee

Liz Matthews reviews Juventud by Vanessa Blakeslee.

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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel

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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Big, Ugly Truth

Conservative pundits have been attacking Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia student who spent the last year carrying around her mattress in protest of how the university handled the discipline hearing after…

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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Minot

The Rumpus talks with Susan Minot about MFA programs, Joseph Kony, and throwing out big chunks of text.

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Really?

Of all the electrons blasted across the internet in the raging debate about the Poets & Writers rankings of MFA programs across this land, these may be the most useless.…

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