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Slaughterhouse Five

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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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The Last Book I Loved: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick and the Shifting of Cultural Values

  • Lily Houston Smith
  • March 3, 2021
Whose stories deserve to be told? Who deserves to tell them? And how?
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The Sleepwalking American Male

  • David Anthony
  • January 18, 2018
Traumatized by dramatic, often violent change, American men become sleepwalkers precisely in order to flee the anxieties and responsibilities of life in democratic America.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #86: Max Allan Collins

  • Alex Dueben
  • June 1, 2017
In April, the Mystery Writers of America named Max Allan Collins a Grand Master, the organization’s peer-voted lifetime achievement award. Collins has had a prolific and often eclectic career. The…
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Down the Rabbit Hole of Experimental Fiction: Michael J. Seidlinger on Becoming a Reader

  • Curtis Smith
  • April 28, 2017
Michael J. Seidlinger discusses returning to House of Leaves for Ig Publishing’s "Bookmarked" series.
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A Recommended Reading List for Trump’s America

  • Spencer Folkins
  • February 8, 2017
We asked nineteen authors what books they'd suggest as recommended reading in light of America's new political reality.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #60: Leah Kaminsky

  • Stuart Waterman
  • December 1, 2016
Leah Kaminsky’s debut novel, The Waiting Room, depicts one fateful day in the life of an Australian doctor and mother, Dina, living in Haifa, Israel. Dina is trying to maintain…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive

  • Sandie Friedman
  • July 18, 2015
Perhaps the city looked more poignantly lovely because I was conscious of its tragic history.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch

  • Alden Jones
  • July 13, 2015
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her latest book, The Small Backs of Children, war, art, the chaos of experience, and that photograph of the vulture stalking the dying child in the Sudan that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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The Disappointing Grandfather

  • Alex Norcia
  • December 12, 2014
After hailing Kurt Vonnegut as the “grandfather” on her “literary family tree,” Kathleen Founds describes the experience of reading his short story, “Welcome to the Monkey House,” at BuzzFeed Books.…
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Charlie Kaufman to Write Film Adaptation of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

  • Paolo Yumol
  • July 12, 2013
Guillermo del Toro (director of Pan’s Labyrinth and the upcoming movie Pacific Rim) has recently announced that he has selected Charlie Kaufman as the writer of the screenplay for del Toro’s film adaptation…
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Kurt Vonnegut Loved Adobe Books, And You Should Too

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 5, 2013
Here’s a lovely addition to the ongoing up-again-down-again saga of Adobe Books: Herbert Gold describes Kurt Vonnegut’s last trip to San Francisco, during which the two visited the “eternal no-rent…
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