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The Seductive Nature of Faith: Talking with Alex McElroy

  • Greg Mania
  • May 17, 2021
Alex McElroy discusses their debut novel, THE ATMOSPHERIANS.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Medieval Witch Confession or Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory?

  • Kathryn Nuernberger
  • February 25, 2021
Witches are real.
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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam

  • Josh English
  • January 20, 2021
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.
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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk

  • Sruti Islam
  • December 27, 2019
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Lacking World

  • Mehdi M. Kashani
  • June 13, 2018
I acted childishly. But, in my defense, it was childish only if we actually lived in a world where Shakespeare had never existed.
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Coming Clean

  • Ben Gwin
  • June 12, 2018
Intellectually, I know Gracie’s mom loves her and needs help. In practice, I just want my daughter safe.
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Writing History

  • B.N. Harrison
  • January 1, 2018
I was pretty sure I could produce a manuscript superior to anything [this editor had] ever published before by letting my cat walk over my keyboard a few times.
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Music’s Living Undead

  • Liz Wood
  • September 15, 2016
On the 20th anniversary of Tupac Shakur’s recorded death, the music community is still asking the question: did that really happen? At Consequence of Sound, Alex Young makes the case for Shakur’s survival (and…
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