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The Rumpus Interview with Martin Atkins
The first time I call Martin Atkins in Chicago, I get his voicemail. The second time, Martin answers, but he’s just arriving home from his office,
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Jonathan Lethem: Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Jonathan Lethem has traded in the crowded Brooklyn literary scene for a classroom in sunny Southern California. Nevertheless, he’s currently at work on a novel set back in Queens. Lethem, who describes one of his past books as “an all-out…
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Marilyn Nelson on Fortune’s Bones
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem is the poet Marilyn Nelson’s rendering of a really horrific true story about a slave owner in Connecticut who dissected the slave Fortune’s bones and “hung them in his house for a little medical school.”…