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postmodernism

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Desire Makes Storytellers of Us All: Anthropica by David Hollander

  • Hugh Sheehy
  • November 25, 2020
What a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden

  • Caleb Powell
  • December 22, 2016
Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kristopher Jansma

  • Corey Atad
  • March 18, 2016
Kristopher Jansma discusses his second novel, Why We Came to the City, facing adulthood in his thirties, and working through grief and loss in writing.
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Really Good Fiction

  • Roxie Pell
  • February 23, 2016
Infinite Jest recently turned twenty, a birthday so momentous it merited a new edition of the tome for college students to display on their bedside tables. In light of the…
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Imagine That

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 22, 2015
Like every other year, in 2015 we wrestled with the knowledge of our constructed selves. But rather than eschew personhood as a postmodernist might, we considered just who we’ve been…
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Blending the High with the Low

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 15, 2015
Star Wars is a Western. Star Wars is a samurai movie. Star Wars isa space opera. Star Wars is a war film. Star Wars is a fairy tale. Slate‘s Forrest Wickman argues that George Lucas’s serial masterpiece isn’t just underrated—it’s completely misunderstood.
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To Pimp Postmodernism

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 28, 2015
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Casey Michael Henry considers Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly a new bid to revive a “Black Postmodernism”: Not only does the album…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jacob Wren

  • Arielle Bernstein
  • March 7, 2015
Jacob Wren discusses his newest novel, Polyamorous Love Song, the relationship between art and ethics, and whether Kanye West is a force for good in the art and music world.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #63: It’s Supposed to Be Bad

  • Rick Moody
  • March 6, 2015
Rick Moody emails with Scott Timberg, author of the new book Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class, about Bob Dylan's new Sinatra covers album, the need for cultural gatekeepers, and the "slippery sub genre" of bad-on-purpose art.
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Funny Names Are Serious Business

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 25, 2015
Names play an important role in defining characters and can inform readers of what they should expect from a text. But not all names need to be serious—indeed, for much of…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Why Jihadists Love Postmodern Poetry

  • David Biespiel
  • February 3, 2015
David Biespiel's Poetry Wire returns with a powerful take on fascism and violence and postmodernism.
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