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The Rumpus Interview with Adam Johnson

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Adam Johnson talks about his new book, Fortune Smiles, fiction and voice, veterans and defectors, solar-powered robots and self-driving cars, and infrared baseball caps that can blind security cameras.

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A Library of Temporary Things

The Prelinger Library in San Francisco is small—just three shelves of volumes. But it’s the unique collection of ephemeral that defines this collection. Megan Prelinger founded the library eleven years ago as…

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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Little Minnie at the Movies

Being a teenager sucks. It’s not pretty or nice or sweet or kind.

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It’s Time

You read that your sister's body—a towel still knotted around her neck— was found dressed in a nightie, panties, and one slipper. You are wearing a nightie, panties, and slippers as you read it. The words safe and trusting pop into your head.

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

A new wall mural has been installed in Los Angeles’s The Last Bookstore to coincide with a new rare books section. Bookstores in train stations and airports are seeing sales…

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The Rumpus Interview with Phoebe Gloeckner

Artist and author Phoebe Gloeckner talks about her semi-autobiographical novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl, just adapted into a film starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, and what she's working on now.

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Patrick O’Neil

Patrick O'Neil talks about his debut memoir Gun Needle Spoon, being big in France, the drug/recovery genre, and writing through trauma.

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The Gentrified City by the Bay

Now, I was wondering if you could help me get something to eat. You wouldn’t be just handing me money to do whatever with — I know that’s a concern…

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How Quiet Lightning Struck San Francisco

I felt the bios and intros depleted the magic. Each sequence of words is a spell, and when you follow one spell with another spell, they compound, building off the…

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The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack

Skip Horack talks about his new novel, The Other Joseph, blending research with fiction, and living with the “curse of the fiction writer.”

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It Hurts Too Much: The Emotional Reality of Trans Murders in 2015

Are you sad? I hope so. Are you angry? You need to be. We need you to share this work.

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A Library of Wine

Napa Valley is one of the most bountiful producers of wine so perhaps its unsurprising that it’s also home to a comprehensive collection of writing about wine. Founded in 1962,…

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