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Be a Reed in the Wind: Talking with Aisha Sharif

  • Wendy J. Fox
  • January 22, 2020
Aisha Sharif discusses her debut collection of poetry, TO KEEP FROM UNDRESSING.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob

  • Ryan Chapman
  • May 9, 2019
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dark Girls”

  • Kendra Allen
  • April 2, 2019
When I was born I came out looking just like them.
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Voices on Addiction: Zombie Nation

  • Alanna Bailey
  • October 3, 2017
Sometimes life is so big and so loud and being a human being in the world is so much I feel overwhelmed and need a cocoon.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: How to Become a Tiger

  • Katie Darby Mullins
  • October 28, 2016
Tigers are bigger than my comprehension. That’s what I want. I want to be bigger than I am, so big I can’t even imagine it, so real I can’t ever be misinterpreted.
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Prince - 1979 | Rumpus Music
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Five Stages of Prince Fandom

  • Corina Zappia
  • May 5, 2016
You don’t need to know him personally, you say. You get the best of Prince through his music. Maybe that’s the truth, and maybe it isn’t.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laurie Foos

  • Lyz Lenz
  • December 16, 2015
Laurie Foos discusses her latest novel, The Blue Girl, feminism, Michael Jackson, and mythical moon pies.
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Urban Escape

  • Bryan Washington
  • June 3, 2015
Of course Zadie Smith’s written a science fiction epic, set on September 11, 2001, chronicling the haphazard relationship between Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, and Elizabeth Taylor. And of course it’s…
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Sound & Vision: Nathan East

  • Allyson McCabe
  • January 12, 2015
Legendary bassist Nathan East talks about playing with the pros, from Barry White to Daft Punk, about his new solo album and documentary, and about teaching musicians to play the instrument he loves.
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Song of the Day: “That Girl”

  • Max Gray
  • October 30, 2014
Some artists demand our respect right away, and others earn it over time. Justin Timberlake made a big splash as a cast member of The Mickey Mouse Club in the…
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Ease on Down

  • T Cooper
  • December 4, 2013
When I was coming up, my household owned just two videos, which I watched in perpetual rotation: the musical The Wiz, and Eddie Murphy’s 1983 stand-up act Delirious.
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Saturday Morning Links

  • Brian Spears
  • September 19, 2009
Morning, everyone. Let’s get our geek on. Get out your checkbook, members of the nerdcore. You can buy Gene Roddenberry’s Mac 128 computer, given to him by Apple. Erik Loomis…
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