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John Steinbeck Talks Falling in Love

  • Kaveh Akbar
  • November 29, 2013
John Steinbeck will be remembered as many things – as the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and many other canonical works of American literature,…
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #48: Trying Not to Stare at the Sun

  • Rick Moody
  • September 18, 2013
Rick Moody talks to novelist and musician Wesley Stace about his career-defining, game-changing new album Self-Titled.
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Love Love Love

  • Lizzy Acker
  • September 13, 2013
“You could have the baby," he said. "Best case scenario, it would absolutely destroy my relationship, like completely burn it to the ground, and then we would get together. It would be hard, but I would do it."
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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

  • Kim Fu
  • August 22, 2013
Kim Fu reviews David Rakoff's LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.,
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All the Longing Left in the Body

  • Kate Gray
  • July 15, 2013
“Sorry,” she said as she passed me in the entrance to the women’s room. “That’s my husband in the other stall. Don’t mind him.” She was going back to her car.
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HEAVY-HANDED: Cat Ladies

  • Chelsea Martin
  • June 12, 2013
Maybe we should be cat ladies together.
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Hateful Things

  • Shelby Koehne
  • June 3, 2013
Taylor’s arms are around me and I haven’t yet realized that the first boy I’ve ever loved is teaching me how to hate.
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ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: BOB DYLAN’S BLONDE ON BLONDE

  • Helena Fitzgerald
  • May 17, 2013
The album was the warm yellow window of someone else’s house as you walk by on a cold night. Listening to it was the feeling you get when you look into this stranger’s window and wish you lived there.
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Multiplicity

  • Alex Myers
  • May 6, 2013
As I held the passport in my hand, I realized that both marriage and gender have a life beyond my own. Somewhere, my citizenship gender had been on file. Somewhere, a record of me existed that over-ruled my daily existence. Here, I was a man. There, I had been female.
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We Are Only So Much Monkey: Lessons Learned From Failure

  • Amy Butcher
  • May 2, 2013
The earliest piece of advice my mother ever gave me was simply this: “Marry a man, Amy. Not a monkey.”
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Interstitial Days

  • Laurie Saurborn Young
  • February 14, 2013
A glance, an explosive connection, or a kiss that brings on a divorce. Decisions to stay or go. A diagnosis dictating a body’s abrupt end, slow decline, or unexpected recovery.
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Dream Girl

  • Kristen Forbes
  • December 20, 2012
Going through dating profiles is like reading the same book over and over again. Everyone is happy and loves to laugh. Everyone likes beer and coffee and rain. They all…
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