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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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FUNNY WOMEN: Other Contenders for 2017’s Word of the Year
Fückit: When you’ve had enough, more than enough, but somehow enough is never enough, and I put wine in my cereal now.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #116: David Lazar
"Becoming an essayist has always seemed to me as a bit of a pratfall."
Constantly and On Your Own: Talking with Natasha Stagg
Natasha Stagg discusses her debut novel, Surveys, obsession with celebrity, social media, and how she approached writing about something so ephemeral.
ENOUGH: This Is Life
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Slush Piles in White
The sensibilities of whiteness do not want us to work, do not want us to think, do not want us to imagine outside of its bounds.
Claiming Space: A Conversation with Elizabeth Crane
Elizabeth Crane discusses her latest collection, Turf, how where she has lived has shaped her work, and why she loves writing in first-person plural.
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Andrew Savage’s Punk Possibilities
I kept listening over and over again, and eventually I realized this album was challenging my idea of what punk is.
The Story We Have Yet to Tell: Talking with Haroon Moghul
Haroon Moghul discusses How to Be a Muslim: An American Story, his own religious journey, and the blessings that come with being an outsider.
Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships
Perhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.
A Hinging Thing: Talking with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new collection Good Bones, how motherhood has changed her writing, and what it felt like to have a poem go viral.