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A Box Full of Darkness: Talking with Adrienne Brodeur

  • Liz Button
  • October 11, 2019
Adrienne Brodeur discusses her new memoir, WILD GAME.
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Wilco - Schmilco | Rumpus Music
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Sound Takes: Schmilco

  • Brian Tierney
  • February 2, 2017
For a band wreathed with as many indictments as laurels, as many charges of settling into post-avant-garde “dad-rock” as praise for their artistry, it’s no surprise that Wilco’s always been preoccupied with getting reborn.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Valuation Methods

  • Rachel Wilkinson
  • December 5, 2015
In some of my fantasies, I make a pitch for art or for truth, defend them like commodities.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Little Minnie at the Movies

  • Melissa Carroll
  • September 12, 2015
Being a teenager sucks. It’s not pretty or nice or sweet or kind.
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Willa Cather on Happiness

  • Kyle Williams
  • August 31, 2015
I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. Brain…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive

  • Sandie Friedman
  • July 18, 2015
Perhaps the city looked more poignantly lovely because I was conscious of its tragic history.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • May 5, 2015
Are you a science dummy? Do you need to be happy? There is an app for that. The science of your face. Algorithms don’t know best. The history of Silicon…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 9, 2014
Amanda Marcotte isn’t listening to you on Twitter anymore. You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape the modern office. Unfettered access to technology isn’t always good for…
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Happiness is Overrated

  • Ashley Perez
  • January 24, 2014
Critical theorist Mari Ruti writes about how humans may not be built for happiness: “If all of that isn’t enough to make you suspicious of the cultural injunction to be…
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Gratitude

  • Abigail Bereola
  • October 8, 2013
Even without a government shutdown, writers are not usually known to be a happy bunch. “Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy,” author Connie Willis once said. It is…
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Finding Quiet

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 4, 2012
“So what to do? The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to…
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Who and What is Happy?

  • Sam Riley
  • September 1, 2011
Science and philosophy are the academic parents of the social sciences, which is interesting considering the current obsession with happiness. There’s always an updated study on what (or what doesn’t)…
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