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Hypocrisy Is Ripe for Stories: Talking with Melissa Scholes Young

  • Megan Cummins
  • June 7, 2021
Melissa Scholes Young discusses her new novel, THE HIVE.
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Weird and Grotesque and Disturbing: Talking with Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  • Mary Pauline Lowry
  • February 1, 2021
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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Identity Politics and the English Language: Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times

  • C.M. Mesquita
  • November 11, 2020
Who “owns” the English language?
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A Body Is a Bill to Pay

  • Laura Eppinger
  • January 28, 2019
If my body is a bill to pay, my voice will be singing the receipts.
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The Rumpus Interview with Imbolo Mbue

  • Nina Moog
  • December 5, 2016
Imbolo Mbue discusses her debut novel Behold the Dreamers, teaching herself how to write a novel, and the price of the American Dream.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Valuation Methods

  • Rachel Wilkinson
  • December 5, 2015
In some of my fantasies, I make a pitch for art or for truth, defend them like commodities.
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In Case of Emergency

  • Matthew Newton
  • June 10, 2013
I wanted to hide and quiet my mind by drowning it in alcohol, and I wanted a familiar place to do it. Much like my job, however, I had returned to something that no longer existed.
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A Look at the Journalism Job Market

  • Melissa Tan
  • September 18, 2009
As the internet continues to take over the world, more and more of us begin to fancy ourselves as writers and hop on the blog-wagon, but how many viable journalistic…
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Recession Strippers #1: The Laura Beth Experience

  • Antonia Crane
  • July 3, 2009
Dancers always want to quit but rarely do. The cliché is that sex workers are stuck. But, it’s more complex than that. Dancers quit for years but always come back…
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Poems for an Economic Collapse

  • Sean Singer
  • February 27, 2009
Katy Lederer’s poems are both romantic and political in nature. With their attention to formal and lyrical concerns, these poems tackle the problems of desire when it coincides with money…
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Funny America, A New Political Humor Blog by Will Durst

  • Will Durst
  • December 8, 2008
THE CLUELESS CUP In an upset worthy of Marin Day School covering the spread against the Green Bay Packers through the first three quarters of a spirited scrimmage at Lambeau…
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