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Unsettled Memories: First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami

  • Jean Huets
  • June 9, 2021
Author and narrator, fiction and memory, never settle comfortably into their proper places.
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A Love That Leaves Scars: With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

  • A. Poythress
  • May 19, 2021
Reading Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth is like taking an afternoon drive down the I-4 of my memory.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Fingers”

  • Rachel Heng
  • October 9, 2020
Once an area was designated, it was off limits.
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Can We Even Trust Ourselves?: A Conversation with Jac Jemc

  • Anne Valente
  • August 7, 2017
Jac Jemc discusses The Grip of It, revision, and returning to the theme of trustworthiness again and again.
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The Horror, the Horror of Short Form Fiction

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 24, 2014
Despite the publication this past year of behemoth novels like Donna Tartt’s 750 page The Goldfinch and Eleanor Catton’s 850 page The Luminaries, current trends increasingly embrace truncated fiction. MobyLives…
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A Spooktacular Halloween Reading List

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 31, 2013
It’s Halloween, and the Hairpin’s Jia Tolentino has put together a frightfully good list of spooky books to read by the light of the jack-o-lantern. This list has it all:…
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Two-Sentence Horror Stories

  • Abigail Bereola
  • July 31, 2013
Last week, a Reddit user posed a question: “What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences?” The question received over 14,000 comments and Buzzfeed…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alasdair Gray

  • Ari Messer
  • October 19, 2009
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray is his own best nightmare. It took the modern Scottish bard twenty-five years to finish Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), his fat, strangely…
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