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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod

  • Rebecca van Laer
  • April 29, 2021
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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Karmic Moments: A Conversation with Christina Chiu

  • Addie Tsai
  • March 11, 2020
Christina Chiu discusses her forthcoming novel, BEAUTY.
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The Eternal Hunt for Relevance: Doree Shafrir Discusses Startup

  • Elon Green
  • May 12, 2017
Doree Shafrir discusses her debut novel, Startup, the differences between journalism and fiction, and why she chose to tell this particular story.
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The Generosity of Kristin Dombek

  • Kirstin Allio
  • October 13, 2016
In her new book, The Selfishness of Others, Kristin Dombek turns her deliberate inquisition and dry humor on the suddenly ubiquitous if “sketchy” word narcissism. In conversation with Laura Creste…
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The Rumpus Interview with Paula Whyman

  • Ann K. Ryles
  • September 14, 2016
Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.
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“A Hologram of Self”

  • Kirstin Allio
  • August 25, 2016
Kristin Dombek’s The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism is just out from FSG, and over at n+1 she writes beguilingly, with humor and aplomb, about…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • August 23, 2016
Phillip K. Dick’s holy spirits—or hallucinations? Lovecraftian scientific horror in Stranger Things. Shakespeare + math = … Narcissists doth make psychiatrists of us all. As women of color win science…
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Tautophrases and Narcissism

  • Guia Cortassa
  • April 7, 2015
In a world where the selfie has become our dominant art form, tautological phrases like “You do you” and its tribe provide a philosophical scaffolding for our ever-­evolving, ever more…
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Me-Focused Pop Music

  • Sam Riley
  • July 13, 2011
Psychologists, nonfiction writers, journalists, concerned parents, and probably Jonathan Franzen, are increasingly focused on critiquing this “me”-focused generation, or the “cult of self-esteem” that shelters and coddles kids and invites…
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Is the Internet Ruining Our Lives?

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  • March 2, 2009
We’re distracted, our attention is shot, we are under surveillance, and we don’t care! We like being linked and friended by strangers who may or may not be who they say they are.
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