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The Rumpus Interview with Joseph Huff-Hannon

  • Stephen Markley
  • February 12, 2014
Writer and activist Joseph Huff-Hannon discusses Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories, an oral history collaboration with journalist Masha Gessen and a look at the human rights crisis currently affecting Russia's LGBT population.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening

  • Emmy Komada
  • September 13, 2012
The editors of Throwing Stones at the Moon shed light on Colombia's human rights crisis and the power of bringing survivors' voices to a conversation dominated by the perpetrators and beneficiaries of the conflict.
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #5

  • John Bowe
  • April 27, 2010
Fred White, Age 86 Mission, Kansas “She was quite a doll and I didn’t want anybody else.” My wife, Helen, and I have been married sixty-five years. I met her…
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #4

  • John Bowe
  • April 13, 2010
Dominic Sclafani, Age 30 Tucson, Arizona “He’s like, ‘She’s going to eat you alive.’ And I go, ‘Yes, I know.’”
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #3

  • John Bowe
  • April 2, 2010
Betty Anne May, Age 80 Truth or Consequences, New Mexico “That man could turn me on by touching my little fingernail.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Craig Walzer

  • Kristina Kearns
  • September 16, 2009
“We need to be able to digest and give people who are very far away the time and space to tell their story in their own words
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Like a Pack of Alaskan Dogs

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • July 7, 2009
“Ed Paulsen was nineteen in 1931. He was a job applicant. San Francisco. ‘I’d get up at five in the morning and head for the waterfront. Outside the Spreckels Sugar…
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Jeff Buckley and His Band, An Oral History

  • Amy Yates Wuelfing
  • June 24, 2009
Jeff Buckley: Having Tim Buckley as my father gave me the parts needed to play music.  Even if I went and became a lawyer and someone asked me to sing…
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Working, as Adapted by Harvey Pekar

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • June 8, 2009
Harvey Pekar, the only famous comic-book creator who isn’t an artist himself, last month released a graphic adaptation of Studs Terkel’s Working with The New Press. Dave Gilson summarizes it…
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Oral History According to David Lynch: Interview Project

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • June 2, 2009
David Lynch’s most recent project seems to be a complete departure from the epic, surreal fictions that made him famous: a collection of oral histories of ordinary people, which he…
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