Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam
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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Posts Tagged: school shooting
The Blacker the Berry, the Quicker They Shoot
Fear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Shelter in Place
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
Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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SquareRoot of Love: Broken Heart
We must find a way to keep the roots of love and justice strong.
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Moving Targets
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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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
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 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
That truth lives in my body, next to the bullet that’s still in my back.
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The Truth is Ugly
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
I was always taught that if you have a gun, you better produce it.
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Previously, we blogged about Harper High School, where twenty-nine students were shot in a single school year, eight of whom died—not in what we think of as a “school shooting,” but in an equally deadly and frightening series of individual incidents. This American Life highlighted the school in a two-part episode a few weeks ago and […]
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Today, Enough
We are crying out for change, for a mental health care system that can truly help the people who soothe their inner torment by reaching for weapons of such destruction. We are crying out for gun control laws that, at the very least, make it more difficult for such tragedies to occur.
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