t cooper
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The Hawk in Me
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
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
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
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 the series, head over here to find all eight songs in…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
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 which people posed as police officers over the phone and…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: T Cooper
“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.”
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 is by Rocco Katastrophe.
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REAL MAN ADVENTURES #2: “He Will”
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 for the six days, you can download free tracks from…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews T Cooper
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
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
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 Lin: 1983- ????” Across from Melville House was the Ugly…
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The Shorty Q & A with T Cooper
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 of the Parts and Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes,…