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Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger

  • Claire Rudy Foster
  • June 2, 2021
The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 19, 2018
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week In Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 15, 2018
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #133: Jake Shears

  • Elon Green
  • April 26, 2018
“I wrote this book. I worked really, really hard on it, and I was a little scared by it.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Clarence Major

  • David Breithaupt
  • January 27, 2017
Clarence Major discusses his new collection Chicago Heat and Other Stories, the artist's role in politics, Donald Trump and race relations, and Paris in the good old days.
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Prince - Lovesexy | Rumpus Music
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You’re Just a Sinner I Am Told: Prince & the Sexual Revolution

  • Anna March
  • May 5, 2016
It was all about desire, including women’s desire, Prince’s music. Women were not degraded. They were exalted, body and mind both.
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Regarding the Boy

  • Alexander Pines
  • April 18, 2016
What happens to a place when it can no longer define itself by its history, when it tears everything down? What is the rust belt without the plants, the factories? Who is the boy without his sister?
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Ivan and Misha

  • Karen Laws
  • April 26, 2011
Michael Alenyikov’s award-winning new book, Ivan and Misha, explores many-faceted love—from the intense and fleeting to bonds of familial obligation.
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