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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sumita Chakraborty

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • September 29, 2020
Sumita Chakraborty discusses her debut collection, ARROW.
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  • Allyson McCabe
  • Music
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Everything Is Happening All of the Time: Talking with Sven Ratzke

  • Allyson McCabe
  • December 18, 2019
Sven Ratzke discusses his new show, WHERE ARE WE NOW.
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #94: I Think I Might

  • Rick Moody
  • May 2, 2019
This is a deep dive, therefore, into the site of brilliant, uncompromising contemporary work.
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I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You

  • Sophie Sills
  • August 9, 2018
Your words feel like shapes, like wooden blocks to clear out of the way.
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sadie Dupuis’s Preloved Farfisa Organ

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • April 12, 2018
[I]t’s taken me back to those memories of recording at my dad’s, and the stuff that took him back into his past, and ultimately into my future.
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Conversation with Andrea J. Buchanan

  • Leigh Stein
  • April 2, 2018
Andrea J. Buchanan discuss The Beginning of Everything and processing trauma through narrative.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Chris Santiago

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 10, 2017
Chris Santigo on his new collection Tula, writing a multilingual text, and the connections between music and writing poetry.
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America Again

  • Lara Downes
  • October 20, 2016
I felt urgently that it was the moment to tell the story of what I’ve learned about American music—or maybe about being an American.
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A Year In The Life: Premiere Perseveration

  • Lara Downes and Daniel Felsenfeld
  • June 16, 2016
I once, years ago, sat next to a colleague at a premiere, and as the lights dimmed I whispered, “Why do I do this to myself?” And yet, I persist.
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A Year in the Life: Deadlines,  A Love Story

  • Lara Downes and Daniel Felsenfeld
  • February 25, 2016
Deadlines make me crazy. They cause me anxiety, sleepless nights, and self-hatred, but they also make me work very hard, and to manage to always, somehow, so far, pull it off.
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The Rumpus Interview with Frederic Rzewski

  • Joel Hoffman
  • July 6, 2015
Composer Frederic Rzewski talks about his masterpiece The People United Will Never Be Defeated, writing and playing classical music, and performing his music in an unusual venue—a fish market.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Stroffolino

  • Rob Rubsam
  • September 17, 2014
Poet and musician Chris Stroffolino talks about his new album Griffith Park, recording with the Silver Jews, and life inside his piano van.
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