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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Achy Obejas

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • July 26, 2017
Achy Obejas discusses her new collection, The Tower of the Antilles, what she's learned from translating works of others, and why we should all read poetry every day.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Tamiko Nimura

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • May 24, 2017
Tamiko Nimura talks about the influence of history, memory, and silence on her work; creating a private MFA for herself; and writing a generational memoir.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • May 17, 2017
Noriko Nakada writes with mesmerizing beauty on outrunning her darkness for Catapult. In the latest TORCH installment at The Rumpus, Nadia Owusu traces the inherited trauma in her family’s history.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Damian Duffy and John Jennings

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 22, 2017
Damian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic novel Kindred.
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Deep Conditioning with Wilson Phillips

  • Tom Pyun
  • March 31, 2016
“Don’t become a professor,” he said. “I’d rather you become a garbage man. They get paid more and have better benefits.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Karen Salyer McElmurray

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • February 5, 2016
Karen Salyer McElmurray talks about academia, the relationship between flaws and perfection, writing memoir, and the "tapestry" of writers who inspire her.
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GOP Candidate Would Censor Free Speech at Universities

  • Ian MacAllen
  • October 28, 2015
Tenured professors might soon be a thing of the past, and that could prove particularly frightening if one Republican presidential candidate gets a hold of the Department of Education. Tenure…
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Dreger

  • Angela Chen
  • August 12, 2015
Alice Dreger discusses her latest book, Galileo’s Middle Finger, the relationship between science and social justice, and the state of modern academia.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 27, 2015
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) It’s dubious whether these parents read either book. It’s not personal, it’s just…
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Contingent Justice

  • Michelle Vider
  • June 15, 2015
LARB’s Marginalia Review of Books recently published a series of essays on the future of tenure. While addressing the academic labor crisis, the series digs deeply into our wider national…
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Professors Are the Canary in the Coal Mine

  • Ian MacAllen
  • November 17, 2014
Though plenty of adjunct professors still teach students, the full-time, tenured, middle-class professor position is nearing extinction. Adjunct professors are paid at wages below the poverty line while the costs of the…
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