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An Elaborately Constructed Artifice: Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • October 27, 2021
Slipstream may as well be what we call our bewilderment.
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The Last Book I Loved: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick and the Shifting of Cultural Values

  • Lily Houston Smith
  • March 3, 2021
Whose stories deserve to be told? Who deserves to tell them? And how?
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Pynchon’s Dirty Secret

  • Kyle Williams
  • March 14, 2016
But I don’t want to talk about dick jokes, here. I want to talk about Pynchon’s love stories. Sean Carswell, sometimes Pynchon scholar, writes about the part of Pynchon no…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #70: Alien Now!

  • Rick Moody
  • February 11, 2016
Maybe, in terms of idiom, The Dabbers are like a thrash rock and roll version of the Cocteau Twins, or what the This Mortal Coil would sound like if the Dead Boys tried to cover one of their albums.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Reginald Dwayne Betts

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 10, 2015
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new book Bastards of the Reagan Era.
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The Rumpus Interview with Zak Smith

  • Michele Knapp
  • January 16, 2009
Nobody ever asks me, “Why make paintings?” Is wanting to spend your time around attractive women who like to have sex much more difficult a desire for journalists to understand…
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