Wanted/Needed/Loved: Alice Bag’s Queen’s Quilt
My parents told me, “This is a special one for the queen.”
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Posts Tagged: Music
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #220: Jennifer Steil
“Ultimately art is about making sense of our brief lives on earth.”
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Swinging Modern Sounds #102: Song Turned Blue
I’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
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To Pimp a Mockingbird: A Lesson Plan
Literacy, you know firsthand, is a tool, is a motivator, is the beat of education.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #209: Lisa Olstein
“I don’t think I know how to write if I’m not guided by sound—that’s when it feels like I’m flailing or straining.”
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Keeping Time in Los Angeles
Music was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #102: Ten Influential Albums
Music columnist Rick Moody writes on ten albums that influenced him through his life.
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Poetics of Lineage
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Lover to Lover”
It’s the atmosphere. The temperature. What lies between thee and me.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #101: A Really Big Band
Zappa, on the other hand, was never sentimental.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Unf*ckwittable: Talking with Ron A. Austin
Ron A. Austin discusses his debut novel, AVERY COLT IS A THIEF, A SNAKE, A LIAR.
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“Close to You”: A Family’s Love, Depression, and Grief
In my hands is the record of my youth.
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You Never Win, You Never Lose: Talking with Gabriel Birnbaum
Gabriel Birnbaum discusses his new album, NOT ALONE.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Erin McKeown’s Dress
I still had the dress and decided to wear it.
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Everything Is Happening All of the Time: Talking with Sven Ratzke
Sven Ratzke discusses his new show, WHERE ARE WE NOW.
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Hearing a Novella/Reading an Album: Talking with Katharine Coldiron
Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Tom May’s Hiking Boots
It’s good to know I’ll always be prepared for what’s out there.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #99: One of These Days It’s Gonna Set You Free
I’m just being an artist. I’m just being creative.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Donna Dresch’s World of Radio
It was like a nationwide Yellow Pages of radio.
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A Kind of Cartography: Talking with Elizabeth Geoghegan
Elizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
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ENOUGH: Good Girls Don’t Sing
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib discusses his new collection, A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #193: C.J. Farley
“My novel tries to write the contributions of men and women of color back in.”
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sanae Yamada’s Favorite Foods
It’s beyond comfort food. And when I’m out on the road it’s a signifier of home.
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Subtle Connections: A Conversation with Gregory Spatz
Gregory Spatz discusses his newest book, WHAT COULD BE SAVED.
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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The Lost Art of the Mixtape in Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Lawlor uses the act of making a mixtape to show us their character’s mind at work.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #97: It’s a Wonder We Can Even Feed Ourselves
What follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Snail Mail’s Beloved Books
Wherever I go out on tour, I always have a book with me, and another for when I’m finished.
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