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The Curious Incident of Censorship

  • Ian MacAllen
  • August 13, 2015
A Florida school has removed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time from its reading list, reports the Guardian. It’s not the first time the book has been deemed…
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Erin Belieu

  • Dave Roderick
  • November 24, 2014
In Episode 7 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick talks with poet Erin Belieu about her new collection, Slant Six, her work with VIDA, and how we're all just onions.
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The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities

  • Alex Norcia
  • September 19, 2014
After a judge ruled that religious pamphlets could be handed out in Orange County, Florida, the Satanic Temple, Salon reports, is responding with the dissemination of its own literature: The…
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Bookless Libraries

  • Guia Cortassa
  • August 26, 2014
Florida Polytechnic University has just opened, in a building designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, a completely bookless library. Available to all the students is a catalog of 135,000 e-books…
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Kerouac’s House and the End of Doubt

  • Sion Dayson
  • August 20, 2014
A perfectionist who claws for each word, I could use a little spontaneity. How tempting to try loosening up, to compose wildly, undisciplined, the “crazier the better.” To accept that I’m a genius all the time.
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The Rumpus Interview with Debra Dean

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • July 3, 2014
Author Debra Dean discusses the thin line between fiction and autobiography and how she became a writer after a career onstage.
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The Good News and the Bad News About Libraries

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • July 31, 2013
Bad news first: There are 49 libraries in Florida’s Miami-Dade County. Twenty-two of them are about to be closed. Some last-minute budget rearrangements might save six of those, but that…
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Surviving a For-Profit School

  • Stephen S. Mills
  • July 17, 2013
There were warning signs. Red flags. The school was located in a series of strip malls along a highway in a shitty part of town, but close enough to a nice part to appear, on paper, like a good place to go.
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Indian River

  • Sonia Saraiya
  • January 8, 2013
In Florida there is an Indian River that flows through a swamp in the northern half of the state. It behaves nothing like a river at all—instead it commingles with…
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One Hippopotamus and Magpies

  • Joseph Olshan
  • January 12, 2012
Lynne Barrett’s story collection, Magpies, soaks in the muggy atmosphere of South Florida, with her well-told stories of swamplands and housing developments.
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Lost in Space

  • Laura van den Berg
  • February 24, 2009
For Mary Miller’s characters, the world is anything but big. These are women trapped in little towns and little lives, but the emotional resonance is limitless.
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