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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 Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #1: Are We Amused Yet?

  • Charles Kruger
  • July 15, 2016
Here is something I’ve always believed: Just knowing I am an artist, asserting that identity, is more important than what I produce. It is a victory in itself.
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A Field Guide To The Muses

  • David Breithaupt
  • June 30, 2016
This summer, an exhibit and accompanying book, Picasso: The Artist and His Muses, brings light to the women who inspired some of the artist’s greatest paintings: Women play an essential…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sandra Meek

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 24, 2016
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sandra Meek about her new collection An Ecology of Elsewhere, writing landscapes, and the power of syntactic density.
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Stop Thinking and Just Work

  • Lyz Lenz
  • February 18, 2016
Jessica Abel suggests that what is holding you back isn’t inertia but idea debt.
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Muse

  • Diana Spechler
  • April 26, 2011
After I’d been working on my second novel, Skinny, for three years, and by “working on,” I mean writing aimlessly like Jack in The Shining, a friend of mine requested…
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