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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams

  • Maria Kuznetsova
  • March 31, 2021
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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Embracing the Grotesque: Talking with Lisa Hanawalt

  • DW McKinney
  • November 20, 2020
Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.
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The Earth Recycles All of Us: Talking with Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • February 19, 2018
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her novel, The Brick House, female sexuality in literature, and transcendence through dreaming.
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Drawing Close to the Void: Talking with Patty Yumi Cottrell

  • Maria Anderson
  • November 17, 2017
Patty Yumi Cottrell discusses her debut novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, how she accesses "the enraptured state" to write, and dreaming as an art form.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Bob and Dave

  • Kamil Ahsan
  • February 10, 2017
The threat of perfunctory conversation looms. Raza reaches for his headphones, but it is too late. The man is already talking to him.
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The Rumpus Interview with William Cusick

  • Dana Knight
  • March 17, 2016
Director William Cusick discusses his new film, Pop Meets the Void, its unconventional narrative structure, simultaneously acting and directing, and the universal urge to create.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Oneiric (another word I’ve never said)

  • Cris Mazza
  • March 23, 2014
Novelist and memoirist Cris Mazza deconstructs bravery, the function of dreaming--both canine and human--and a lost-love rekindled after 25 years.
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