Music
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Candy from Strangers: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan
We can try to perform our inner lives, but we can’t actually reveal them. We can create a simulacrum, which is so much of what I see on social media, and that simulacrum is entertainment. It’s exciting because we all…
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Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars
This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.
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Our Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith
Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.
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A Universe of Enterprising Divas: Raphael Cormack‘s Midnight in Cairo
In Midnight in Cairo, the lives of the enterprising divas are interlinked.
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Acts of Love: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Zauner’s memoir is not a performance, but an act of love, including all the dirty little bits that come with it.
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Writing to Heal: Talking with Emilly Prado
Emilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kevin Simmonds
Kevin Simmonds discusses his new collection, THE MONSTER I AM TODAY.
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A Girl-Body Filled with Animals
There was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
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On Monsters and Mythology: A Conversation with Alex DiFrancesco
Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
