Writing Toward Surprise: A Conversation with Leslie Pietrzyk
Leslie Pietrzyk discusses her new story collection, ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita
The hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: How to Sleep-Train Your Lawmakers
This time? This time we decided to sleep-train the baby.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: The Babble in the Bubble
To the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #82: Cecil Castellucci
The artistic oeuvre of Cecil Castellucci is dauntingly varied and vast. A singer/songwriter, a playwright, a librettist, she is also the author of many books, ranging from the picture book Grandma’s Gloves (winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal) to the YA novels Boy Proof, Tin Star, and the part comic, part prose novel […]
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Comic artist and writer Mike Norton is doing alright. After working on various titles for DC (Queen & Country, Gravity, Runaways, The All-New Atom, Green Arrow/Black Canary), in 2011 he launched his webcomic Battlepug. In 2012, Battlepug won an Eisner for Best Digital Comic. He’s a co-creator of Revival, a critically acclaimed and commercially successful […]
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A Man’s ABCs of Miscarriage
I once heard the only thing faster than the speed of light is the speed of thought, and I wonder if simply thinking about Sawyer’s sister until my head hurts could get us to the place we fear talking about.
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At Bustle, Charlotte Ahlin gives comic fans a look at a new DC imprint, Young Animal, created by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. The imprint’s newest title, Shade the Changing Girl, is brought to readers by an amazing group of all-female writers, with Way serving as a consultant. The simplest way to describe the story is this: “an […]
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The New York Comics Symposium: Arlen Schumer on Carmine Infantino
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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THE NEW YORK COMICS SYMPOSIUM: DANNY FINGEROTH, PETER SANDERSON & JEFF TREXLER
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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