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Swinging Modern Sounds #81: On Cultural Preservation

  • Rick Moody
  • June 6, 2017
The Lost Boys had their moment in the media, but these people, these survivors, not boys at all and not lost now either, are still here, living lives, growing and changing and thinking and reflecting.
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  • Sari Botton

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jason Diamond

  • Sari Botton
  • February 10, 2017
Jason Diamond discusses his memoir Searching for John Hughes, confronting his childhood abuse, avoiding his parents, and writing about all of it.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Jennifer Gilbert

  • Jennifer Gilbert
  • January 27, 2017
Trauma steals meaning and expression. BDSM and writing create them.
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Storytellers Just Want Connection

  • Buffy Flores
  • November 2, 2016
I’d stand in my doorway and watch lightning break in the thunderheads at the base of the mountain: threads of electricity flashing through the sky in the distance—instantaneous and then…
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We Tell Ourselves Stories to Tell Ourselves Stories

  • Theodora Messalas
  • October 28, 2016
It’s not like we can all launch a Kickstarter or write a book—there’ve been hundreds of books about the border, and we still have the same problem. So I get…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Eden Robinson

  • Helga Schimkat
  • September 24, 2016
I don’t really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.
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Remnants

  • Amy Robillard
  • August 15, 2016
There were six people under the same roof, surviving but not living. Because living requires stories.
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On the Road

  • Theodora Messalas
  • August 12, 2016
In his monthly series “The Lives of Others” over at the Paris Review, Edward White introduces us to globe-trotting Turkish writer, Evliya Çelebi, and the esoteric but lively book of travel…
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New Book Shows Why Seinfeld Sticks

  • Amanda Hildebrand
  • July 14, 2016
Now what’s… the big deal… about Seinfeld? Two decades later, the hit sitcom is still being referenced, watched, and loved by audiences around the world. Author and TV critic Jennifer…
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben H. Winters

  • Stephanie Klein
  • July 8, 2016
Ben H. Winters discusses his new novel Underground Airlines about an America where the Civil War never took place, writing speculative fiction, and modern racism.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Suit

  • David Biespiel
  • June 7, 2016
It was as if he understood that the authentic must begin in the voice. And through the texture of the voice—its moral and psychological claims—sensory details emerge with absolute authority.
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Grey Matters

  • Theodora Messalas
  • May 20, 2016
This is how it started: Falling into the spaces between words, between ideas, between sentences. An infinite elbowing out of time, and time and space between. Gaps upon gaps upon…
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