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Moments of Reawakening: Talking with Cathy Park Hong

  • Frances Nguyen
  • May 26, 2020
Cathy Park Hong discusses MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING.
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An Ethnography of the Self: Talking with Morgan Parker

  • Vivian Lee
  • January 29, 2018
Morgan Parker discusses her writing process, approaching an idea from various forms, and how moving from NYC to L.A. has changed her work.
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Binary States of America: A Letter to Obama

  • John Sims
  • January 18, 2017
In the end, although I wanted you to be more like Charles Bronson or Malcolm or Luke Cage, I am very proud to have witnessed your historic presidency—the successes, and even the disappointments.
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Unstuck in Time

  • Roxie Pell
  • June 28, 2016
Despite its uncanny salience in the context of this most recent wave of social injustice and protest, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout was written well before the #BlackLivesMatter movement began. Far…
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Ross Gay

  • Dave Roderick
  • March 13, 2015
In Episode 9 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick talks with poet Ross Gay chats about his new collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, gardening, and "the discipline of joy."
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HORN! REVIEWS: Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World that Made Him

  • Kevin Thomas
  • November 8, 2013
While Richard's genius seems to have come from nowhere, this book unearths a century of American tradition that midwifed it.
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Richard Pryor’s ABCs

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • July 7, 2009
“‘Cause that’s the Z of the game.”
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Blue Collar: A 1978 Film for 2009

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • June 10, 2009
While catching up on my long-neglected film reading, I found this fascinating article by Saul Austerlitz about Paul Schrader’s debut film, Blue Collar, which stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and…
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