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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #211: Rachel Vorona Cote

  • Ilana Masad
  • March 19, 2020
“Ultimately, this is who I am. I can only write honestly, and from where I live.”
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A New Jungle Book

  • Michelle Vider
  • May 2, 2016
At Bitch, Soleil Ho examines the changing interpretations of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, as seen through the novel’s the many film adaptations over the years.
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A Caricature of Incorrectness

  • Jake Slovis
  • March 16, 2016
For the New York Times, Benjamin Moser and Charles McGrath explore the works of authors who they believe have been unfairly stigmatized. While Moser analyzes why Susan Sontag’s work has become branded…
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Is That So?

  • Catherine K. Buni
  • April 9, 2015
I’ve got milk. I’ve got it soaking through disposable nursing bra pads, small disks the size and shape of sand dollars, and dripping down my shirt. Jesus, how much, exactly, is there? you wonder. Or not.
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The Greatest Short Story of All-Time

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 15, 2014
“Kipling,” says a psychiatrist friend of mine, “was always pretending to be something other than he actually was—which was a 10-year-old boy.” His work, the best of it, has a…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears

  • Brian Spears
  • August 15, 2009
Alison Flood, writing in The Guardian implores her fellow citizens to vote in the BBC’s poll for the nation’s favorite poet. She’s worried that there will be a rehash of…
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