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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”

  • Sarah Kasbeer
  • September 8, 2020
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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Into Unbound Space: Talking with Seth Rogoff

  • Kenneth J. Pruitt
  • November 20, 2019
Seth Rogoff discusses his novels FIRST, THE RAVEN: A PREFACE and THIN RISING VAPORS.
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The Neoliberal Heart of the 90s Romcom

  • Kirsten Tambling
  • February 7, 2018
The personal is political, to the extent that politics itself can be effectively effaced with no detrimental effects.
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The Sleepwalking American Male

  • David Anthony
  • January 18, 2018
Traumatized by dramatic, often violent change, American men become sleepwalkers precisely in order to flee the anxieties and responsibilities of life in democratic America.
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Libraries Are the Real Punk Rock

  • Zoe Fisher
  • July 25, 2017
Maybe I was only in the eighth grade, but I was ready to stand up to anyone who tried to threaten the ideal of intellectual freedom.
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The Aura of Baby Einstein, the Child, the Toy

  • Renee Angle
  • July 13, 2017
If there is no distinction between show and commercial, ethics and entertainment, what kind of distinctions, if any, exists between her imaginary play, her consumer life, and our reality?
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Chris Santiago

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 10, 2017
Chris Santigo on his new collection Tula, writing a multilingual text, and the connections between music and writing poetry.
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War Narratives #5: Surge

  • Caleb Cage
  • January 14, 2016
But those who subscribe to the Surge narrative have to work very hard to choose and order their supporting facts.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Midnight in the Century

  • David Biespiel
  • May 26, 2015
...today’s poetry apologists for the Iraq war just keep repeating their intelligence error odes. Wouldn’t it be better, however, if they would address the horror of the failed effort in Iraq?
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

  • Amy Feltman
  • February 23, 2015
Author Laura van den Berg talks to the Rumpus about why she thinks America is obsessed with dystopias, the intersection of surrealism and realism in her work, and choosing an ambiguous ending for her new novel, Find Me.
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Repino

  • Brian Hurley
  • January 28, 2015
Robert Repino talks about his debut novel, Mort(e), the publishing industry, science fiction and literary fiction, writing about religion, and how to write about complex chemical ant languages.
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Hollywood Pilgrims

  • Teow Lim Goh
  • August 28, 2013
The landscape stood out, but I also had an uneasy sense of déjà vu, as if the image had already been imprinted in my memory. I knew that the valley was the setting for John Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach, the film that gave John Wayne his breakout role.
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