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A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football (2015 Edition)

Like an all-night rager in the apartment upstairs or a crying infant on a red-eye, the Super Bowl is one of those ineluctable public occurrences that’s seemingly impossible to stop and difficult to ignore.

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Clothing and Loss

In the fashion world, understanding the zeitgeist is a way of orienting oneself within a temporal framework. And it’s in this way that style is woven so memorably through Didion’s…

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The Rumpus Interview with Luke B. Goebel

Luke B. Goebel talks about his experimental novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, his dark days in San Francisco, hands as blood-bags, and literary Ouija boards.

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Queen Joan

The act of anointing Joan Didion as our favorite, our best, our everything, is the act that reveals what we’re trying to say: that we’re cool, that we’re educated, that…

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Lit Vogue

As unexpected as it may seem, French fashion label Céline has chosen a living literary legend for its new ad campaign: at the age of 80, Joan Didion is about…

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The Hole in the Fence at the End of N 7th

I only know one parlor game and it is looking around at young people, feeling deeply in-the-know about their being in endless, pointless distress over insufficiently expressing themselves.

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The Rumpus Interview with Steph Cha

Steph Cha talks about her new novel, Beware Beware, writing compelling and complex Korean American characters, and what reading a book has in common with a level in a video game.

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Joan Didion and Me

All of that is to say that because Tom Wolfe and because James Baldwin and Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, but because Didion most of all, an American essay…

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Talking About Joan Didion

I should say, rather than messed up, the novel reflected, in a distorted way the messed-up-ness of my life at that time. Rumpus contributor Nicholas Rombes is so fond of…

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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay

Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All That" has spawned a new literary genre: the personal screed about loving (or leaving) New York City.

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The Big Idea: Eula Biss

On Immunity author Eula Biss speaks to Suzanne Koven about mythology, personal freedom, and the history of vaccines.

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Why Didion Remains

We like to think of Joan Didion as glamorous, the sunglasses-wearing, VOGUE-working, New York loving-and-leaving writer that we all could have been if only life had turned out a little…

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