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Positive Tension and Unstructured Time: A Conversation with Courtney Maum

. . . we wake up in human bodies every day and move forward with our lives, but every second of the day we’re thinking ahead, we’re thinking backward. Unfortunately, we’re rarely in the present time.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lilly Dancyger

Lilly Dancyger discusses her debut essay collection, NEGATIVE SPACE.

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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger

Lilly Dancyger discusses her debut memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE.

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Life Is Odd: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore discusses his new essay collection, TO HELL WITH IT.

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FUNNY WOMEN: A Poetry Editor’s Note, by Dick Shear

This moment has come to its crisis. As you can see I really can’t be blamed.

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FUNNY WOMEN: Rejection Letters from an Overly Empathetic Editor

Sorry for my obtuseness! I wish you the best of luck elsewhere!

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Discomfort, Desire, and Drugs: Talking with Ben Gwin

Ben Gwin discusses his debut novel, Clean Time: The True Story of Ronald Regan Middleton, the book's unique structure, and writing satire.

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Funny Women #152: Features of the Groundbreaking American Writers Museum

We’ll be open as long as the National Endowment for the Arts is.

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The Real Lives of Working Writers

Bestselling and award-winning writers Danielle Trussoni and Walter Kirn host the Writerly podcast, a weekly discussion of all things pertaining to the real lives of working writers. From getting and…

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From the Editors: Election 2016

This election is critical. We are code-red. We might elect our first woman president, or we might elect a man who is at best dangerous and unqualified and at worst the end of democracy as we know it today.

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You Cross Me, and There Will (Not) Be Consequences

Zines come and go. Editors move around. It’s rare that a story can’t possibly sell to anyplace but Grandiose Editor’s Power Trip Quarterly. I know when you’re new, anyone ahead…

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American Lit’s Reclusive Editor

Without editor Robert Gottlieb, contemporary classics such as True Grit and Catch-22 might not exist in the forms we know them—but that doesn’t seem to move him. In a rare…

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