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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam

  • Josh English
  • January 20, 2021
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.
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The Blacker the Berry, the Quicker They Shoot

  • Shamecca Harris
  • June 15, 2020
Fear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Shelter in Place

  • Christian McLean
  • September 25, 2019
I tell Kurinda I'd lie flat on the floor under a pile of jackets.
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Objectivity Is My Enemy: A Conversation with Dave Cullen

  • Karen Auvinen
  • April 19, 2019
Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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SquareRoot of Love: Broken Heart

  • John Sims
  • February 13, 2019
We must find a way to keep the roots of love and justice strong.
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Moving Targets

  • Allie Marini
  • March 20, 2018
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • February 22, 2018
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
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The Rumpus Interview With Jeremy Earl

  • David Byron Queen
  • July 11, 2016
Jeremy Earl discusses his latest album, City Sun Eater in the River of Light, the fruitful tension of city vs. country, finding beauty in the darkness of today’s world, and the enduring good vibes of the Grateful Dead.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Rick Moody

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 16, 2015
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Rick Moody about his new book Hotels of North America, unreliable narrators, hotel porn, how titles are uncopyrightable, and Internet comment sections.
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Without Boundaries or Beginnings or Ends

  • Kathryn Miller
  • December 10, 2015
That truth lives in my body, next to the bullet that’s still in my back.
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The Truth is Ugly

  • Craig Reinbold
  • April 15, 2014
In light of this history that Vann has uncovered, in light of more recent tragedies, the questions remain, as then, the same: How did this happen? What might we learn from this?
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A Good Guy With a Gun, or The Frank Castle Doctrine, or The Punisher Applies For A New Job

  • Rion Amilcar Scott
  • July 30, 2013
I was always taught that if you have a gun, you better produce it.
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