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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenn Shapland

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 19, 2020
Jenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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Constellations of Identity: A Conversation with J. Michael Martinez

  • Alex Dueben
  • December 5, 2018
J. Michael Martinez discusses his third collection of poetry, MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: On Documentation

  • Joselyn Takacs
  • May 27, 2016
What is it like to be you? he was always asking, in his way, and it seemed a stupid question then. I didn’t know. I could lie better than I could tell the truth. I hadn’t left yet.
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Learning from Sylvia Plath’s Thesis

  • Victor Luo
  • April 28, 2016
I kept Plath’s “Magic Mirror” close by as I wrote my own thesis. This knowledge that someone else—a literary titan who had seen me through my own breakdown—had attempted a…
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #71: A Michael Bay Film Eating Itself

  • Rick Moody
  • April 7, 2016
“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.
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What’s the Point of a Ph.D.?

  • The Rumpus
  • March 7, 2014
For those of us who have our hearts set on becoming professors, a Ph.D. is a necessary step toward landing a coveted tenure-track position. But if we aren’t planning to spend…
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The New York Comics Symposium: Brendan Leach and Nick Sousanis

  • The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
  • November 29, 2013
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9…
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