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Always in Flux: A Conversation with Shy Watson

  • Amy Saul-Zerby
  • March 31, 2021
Shy Watson discusses her new collection, HORROR VACUI: POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS.
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The Meaning of Truth: A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise by Sandra Allen

  • Caroline Macon Fleischer
  • January 24, 2018
The way the book is organized reflects Allen’s experience: the ability to meet a book with skepticism and find much to be admired.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Barbecue

  • Aiden Arata
  • July 19, 2017
Up close, the beach was disgusting and tragic. A million tiny pieces of plastic were heaped on the shore like confetti from a hundred parades, or like the real sand on the beach threw up.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #78: Conceived as a Playlist

  • Rick Moody
  • March 7, 2017
Shadowbahn [...] is among the most unusual, and most extreme, in a literary career that has often been marked by its unpredictability.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #12: What Is Safety?

  • Charles Kruger
  • December 16, 2016
Oh better far to live and die Under the brave black flag I fly Then play a sanctimonious part With a pirate head and a pirate heart!! –The Pirates of…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #11: Politics, Madness, and Sanity

  • Charles Kruger
  • December 2, 2016
My family was always political, but I have a love/hate relationship with politics. Today, I can feel the country swinging towards madness. And make no mistake, a country can go…
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Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968

  • Paul Justison
  • October 7, 2016
Used to see lots of psychedelic princes and princesses on Haight Street. Not many these days. But here were hundreds of the turned on and tuned in, dressed like birds and peacocks in heat.
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The Rumpus Interview with Rich Cohen

  • David Breithaupt
  • August 19, 2016
Rich Cohen discusses his new book The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, writing book proposals, and interviewing rock stars.
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Unshelf, Flip Open, Drop Out

  • Adam Keller
  • May 20, 2016
Hua Hsu peers beneath the surface of Jesse Jarnow’s new book, a comprehensive history of LSD and the countercultural forces it inspired.
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Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion

  • Amy Fusselman
  • April 11, 2016
Amy Fusselman gathers four writer-artists working in the poetry comics genre to discuss the emerging form.
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Make/Work Episode 22: Mick

  • Scott Pinkmountain
  • November 13, 2014
In episode 22 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with guitarist and songwriter Mick about his childhood abuse, drug use, and the crucial need for alternatives to Katy Perry.
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • July 7, 2009
Did you know that in the 1950s and 60s the CIA used prostitutes to test out the possible mind control effects of LSD on the general populace. Operation Midnight Climax…
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