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We Do What We Can: A Conversation with Ryka Aoki

  • Maylin Tu
  • December 13, 2021
Ryka Aoki discusses her second novel, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS.
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An Elaborately Constructed Artifice: Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall

  • Jonathan Russell Clark
  • October 27, 2021
Slipstream may as well be what we call our bewilderment.
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“Wrong” Comics

  • Brandon Hicks
  • August 30, 2020
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 25, 2020
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Unf*ckwittable: Talking with Ron A. Austin

  • David Schuman
  • January 29, 2020
Ron A. Austin discusses his debut novel, AVERY COLT IS A THIEF, A SNAKE, A LIAR.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sarah Blake

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 30, 2018
Sarah Blake discusses her new collection, Let's Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia.
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The Real Fake News

  • Jackson Arns
  • January 4, 2018
In 2017, newscaster cameos may be the only fact-fiction crossovers for which people have no difficulty keeping the two concepts apart.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • January 27, 2017
Well, it’s been one week under the Trump administration, and already we are living in a land of “alternative facts.” After Kellyanne Conway used the term to defend Press Secretary…
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The Rumpus interview with Jeremy P. Bushnell

  • Ricardo Herrera Bandrich
  • December 12, 2016
Jeremy P. Bushnell discusses his new novel, The Insides, themes of consent, and designing a post-apocalyptic board game.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • May 6, 2016
Some people write about dystopian futures, or reimagined folktales, or ghosts, or science fiction. Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of the upcoming story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is…
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The Double Agency of Will Smith in Sci-Fi

  • Justin Phillip Reed
  • March 3, 2016
Smith’s characters act as witnesses for the rehabilitated offender, the white-supremacist nation-state.
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A Future of Forbidden Books

  • Jake Slovis
  • February 3, 2016
At Electric Literature, Lydia Pine examines dystopian and sci-fi works of fiction that offer a glimpse of what bookshelves and libraries might look like in the future: In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and…
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