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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #5: Vulcan Mind Meld, Anyone?

  • Charles Kruger
  • September 9, 2016
Your Storming Bohemian is emphatically a child of the early 70s. At fifteen, I lived in a hippie commune under the guidance of an eccentric psychologist, later diagnosed as bipolar.…
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Wishing and Hoping: Card Tricks, Love Spells, and Methods of Escape

  • Bonnie Johnson
  • August 16, 2016
I’ll go one further and posit that we need our illusionists: to disprove our eyes, investigate our dreams, and sometimes charm the money from our pockets.
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The Rumpus Interview with Keith Lee Morris

  • Kevin Sterne
  • March 28, 2016
Keith Lee Morris discusses his latest book Traveler’s Rest, Lewis and Clark, and how writing a novel about dreams requires much more than sleep.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Texas Roses

  • David Biespiel
  • February 23, 2016
It’s a matter of self-composition: Keep concentrating, type faster—take a breath and hold it—and do it again.
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Guildtalk #4: The Rumpus Interview with Saeed Jones

  • Alexander Chee
  • February 12, 2016
Saeed Jones talks about his forthcoming memoir How Men Fight For Their Lives, his new fellowship program at BuzzFeed, and making peace with the phantom.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #70: Alien Now!

  • Rick Moody
  • February 11, 2016
Maybe, in terms of idiom, The Dabbers are like a thrash rock and roll version of the Cocteau Twins, or what the This Mortal Coil would sound like if the Dead Boys tried to cover one of their albums.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Valuation Methods

  • Rachel Wilkinson
  • December 5, 2015
In some of my fantasies, I make a pitch for art or for truth, defend them like commodities.
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Paper Trumpets #27: I Don’t Remember How It Ends

  • Kevin Sampsell
  • October 7, 2015
I wanted to put that image inside a scene that disrupts the beauty of it.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • July 24, 2015
There is a common rule in fiction writing that you should never write about dreams. It’s engraved in stone right next to “burn all adverbs.” Dreams are a lazy way…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: When You Dream Your Husband Is Trying to Kill You

  • Suzanne Clores
  • May 24, 2015
These are the exact feminist warnings of marriage.
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Thebes

  • Nika Knight
  • May 14, 2015
The tragedy of a mentally ill mind or a richly realized fantasy is that its world exists only for its inventor. It is the loneliest party, the most isolating game.
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What Demands Retelling

  • Claire Burgess
  • March 13, 2015
I think what demands telling and retelling and re-retelling is this: any story in which complicated grief and desperate sadness is the main character . . . Loss is really…
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