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The Hawk in Me

  • Susan Howard
  • July 11, 2017
I continue to adapt. I do all of this because I cannot run away, not really. There is nowhere to go. The hawk is the thing within me.
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What to Read When Everyone Is Celebrating Dads

  • The Rumpus
  • June 16, 2017
Whether you are celebrating your father or cursing his name this Father's Day, here's a list of very good books about fathers from writers we love.
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A Rumpus Book Clubs Update

  • Brian Spears
  • January 16, 2013
The Book Clubs are rocking right now with this month’s selections, George Saunders’s Tenth of December and Camille Guthrie’s Articulated Lair, but there’s some great stuff on the horizon.
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Listening Love

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 3, 2013
Pitchfork wrote about our recently concluded Real Man Adventures series, which featured eight original songs inspired by chapters in T Cooper’s new memoir-cum-literary scrapbook. Thanks, Pitchfork, we love you back! If you missed…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • December 31, 2012
Ring in the new year with these Rumpus interviews from the weekend! There’s an interview with writer/director Craig Zobel about his movie Compliance, a fictionalized version of real-life series of events in…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: T Cooper

  • Julia Goldberg
  • December 30, 2012
"You know, it's the first question when someone's having a baby: is it a boy or a girl? It's very primitive."
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REAL MAN ADVENTURES #8: “F.E.A.R.”

  • The Rumpus
  • December 28, 2012
We’re releasing half the songs from T Cooper’s musical album, a collection of (mostly) original songs by (entirely) original artists–all inspired by specific chapters in his new book, REAL MAN ADVENTURES. Today’s release…
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REAL MAN ADVENTURES #2: “He Will”

  • The Rumpus
  • December 18, 2012
We’re releasing half the songs from T Cooper’s musical album, a collection of (mostly) original songs by (entirely) original artists–all inspired by specific chapters in his new book, REAL MAN ADVENTURES. Starting yesterday, and…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews T Cooper

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 7, 2012
The Rumpus Book Club chats with T Cooper about Real Man Adventures, meditations on masculinity, vintage-style book design, and why writing is really fucking hard.
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Polar Bear in Paradise

  • Michael Halmshaw
  • December 13, 2010
The protagonist of T Cooper’s short novel is an ambitious, self-destructive, porn-loving, totally sympathetic… bear.
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Thurston Moore’s Audience: A Subjective Account of the Brooklyn Book Festival

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • September 20, 2009
September 13, 2009 10:37am – Walking by Book Stands Tao Lin T-shirts were dangling on hangers at the Melville House booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The T-shirts said “Tao…
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The Shorty Q & A with T Cooper

  • Ainsley Drew
  • February 13, 2009
T Cooper is has been labeled a transgender writer, but to boil it down to a phrase so simple and limiting is an insult. After two critically acclaimed novels, Some…
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