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Glitter and Tattoos and Campiness: An Interview with Gabe Montesanti

  • Jill Talbot
  • June 20, 2022
There was a lot of screaming, and it was very visceral and slippery. If I had to describe my childhood in one scene, it would be that one.
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Joe at the Aquarium

  • Ariél M. Martinez
  • December 16, 2021
I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • November 29, 2016
Don’t dis slang—it’s older than you are. Regarding the pain of fish (and humanities-loving robots). Fake scientists are real. Sexism messes up men’s mental health, too. Aimee Bender and the Ladies…
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The Word Cage: Fish

  • Dan Bransfield
  • August 16, 2016
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D & K’s Fried Fish

  • Emily Haymans
  • May 9, 2016
In the yard of the single-wide trailer that will haunt you for the rest of your life, watch as your father pulls fish from the cooler, one by one.
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The Noble Fish and the Man Who Loved Them

  • P.E. Garcia
  • September 18, 2015
Nothing, in the opinion of a New Yorker, can exceed boiled sheep’shead served up at a sumptuous dinner. . . This noble fish . . . the feats of hooking…
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The Rumpus Interview with Bradley Somer

  • Jody Smiling
  • September 2, 2015
Author Bradley Somer discusses his latest book, Fishbowl, troublesome words, his past in archeology and anthropology, and the importance of the present moment.
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Paper Trumpets #20: The Student Sound

  • Kevin Sampsell
  • March 4, 2015
This is the 20th Paper Trumpets column, and to celebrate the occasion, we're giving away original collages to 10 lucky commenters!
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Folk Talk: fish story

  • Shelagh Power-Chopra
  • April 29, 2014
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The Duke of Discomfort

  • Brian Beglin
  • May 27, 2010
David Means’s fictional worlds are ominous, pre-apocalyptic, the hiss after a match is struck but before it ignites.
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SPACE AVALANCHE: Evolution is awesome

  • Eoin Ryan
  • April 4, 2010
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Waterworld

  • Anya Yurchyshyn
  • October 26, 2009
Loss and longing sit side-by-side with unexpected humor in Laura van den Berg’s stories, reminding readers of the strange things we encounter every day.
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