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From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Lacy M. Johnson

  • Melissa Chadburn
  • June 3, 2022
The Other Side author Lacy M. Johnson talks about the experience of being kidnapped, overcoming trauma, and fighting the George Wills of the world.
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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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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Kamden Hilliard

  • Gale Thompson
  • May 21, 2016
Survival is not always cute, politically responsible, mature, or sober. Survival is ramshackle, as is tolerance.
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The Rumpus Review of The Revenant

  • Tyler Wells Lynch
  • February 10, 2016
On its surface, The Revenant is a story about revenge and survival. On a deeper level, it’s about how those two motivations factor into a generational battle between the (God-like) forces of nature and industry—a sort of perverted Armageddon.
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The Rumpus Review of All Is Lost

  • Larry Fahey
  • November 4, 2013
From the start, All Is Lost understands what makes the survival genre great: an uncompromising dedication to what happens on the screen and a refusal to linger over why it happens or what it means.
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Three Breaths

  • Lily O'Delia
  • July 24, 2013
On some of my lowest days, she lets me into her office, and I submerge myself in the world of her wild past and how she overcame it
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Drinking the Seagull

  • Sarah Marshall
  • August 7, 2012
At the end of his first day on the raft, as the light dwindled to nothing and the chill of night settled around him, did he close his eyes and wish for sleep, wish for dreaming, wish to somehow be transported home to his family, or at least away from the open sea?
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THE BLURB #18: The Long Haul

  • Stacey DErasmo
  • July 26, 2010
Though I have doubted my talent, I’ve never doubted my conviction that this was the path I had to be on. Writing is like my Siamese twin: freakish, alive, weighty, uncanny. Were we to be separated, I doubt that I could survive it.
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