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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn

  • Ariel Gore
  • February 24, 2021
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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Closing the Deal: A Conversation with Mateo Askaripour

  • Liz Button
  • January 11, 2021
Mateo Askaripour discusses his debut novel, BLACK BUCK.
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Tech Is Boring: Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

  • Jefferson Lee
  • June 10, 2020
Luckily, Wiener offers us more than eloquent masochism.
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Nothing Gets Solved: Talking with Kevin Nguyen

  • Janet Frishberg
  • April 22, 2020
Kevin Nguyen discusses his debut novel, NEW WAVES.
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The Business of Making Art: A Conversation with Beatriz Ramos

  • Eric B. Martin
  • June 26, 2017
Beatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet's potential for visual artists.
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The Eternal Hunt for Relevance: Doree Shafrir Discusses Startup

  • Elon Green
  • May 12, 2017
Doree Shafrir discusses her debut novel, Startup, the differences between journalism and fiction, and why she chose to tell this particular story.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • August 30, 2016
Your brain on stories. (Or, molecular effects of Star Wars.) Read books, live longer… …but only Toni Morrison or Salman Rushdie will make you live better. Mapping the human condition on…
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Party Bus

  • Sarah Eisner
  • May 19, 2014
Somewhere, fortieth birthdays are cause for black napkins that say “Over the Hill”, for mourning the death of your childbearing years, and settling into mid-life stagnation. Not here.
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How Writing Helped Connu’s Founders with Business

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 13, 2014
Last year, writers Susannah Luthi and Niree Perian launched Connu, a sort of literary magazine in app form that curates short stories for readers. (We blogged about their Kickstarter campaign…
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“I Bet You Could Sell Thousands of Them”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 7, 2013
If there’s anything we in the United States know about economics, it’s that all you need to get rich is a stalwart work ethic and an original idea. If you…
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