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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds #103: Song Turned Blue

  • Rick Moody
  • May 14, 2020
I’m not writing confessionals; I’m trying to write hooks.
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The Spot You’re Standing In: A Conversation with Chris Dennis

  • Emily Robbins
  • November 13, 2019
Chris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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The Thread: The Masked Man

  • Marissa Korbel
  • June 12, 2018
What I know and don’t know about men matters. What men know and don’t know about themselves matters more.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sarah Blake

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 30, 2018
Sarah Blake discusses her new collection, Let's Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia.
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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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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #60: Leah Kaminsky

  • Stuart Waterman
  • December 1, 2016
Leah Kaminsky’s debut novel, The Waiting Room, depicts one fateful day in the life of an Australian doctor and mother, Dina, living in Haifa, Israel. Dina is trying to maintain…
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This Is The End, Beautiful Friend

  • Roxie Pell
  • May 5, 2015
The rapture may have been a bust, but our obsession with the apocalypse shows no signs of letting up. NPR’s Jason Heller explains why post-apocalyptic fiction will stand the test…
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

  • Amy Feltman
  • February 23, 2015
Author Laura van den Berg talks to the Rumpus about why she thinks America is obsessed with dystopias, the intersection of surrealism and realism in her work, and choosing an ambiguous ending for her new novel, Find Me.
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The Rumpus Interview with Maxwell Neely-Cohen

  • Gabe Durham
  • November 7, 2014
Maxwell Neely-Cohen discusses smart teens, furious parents, the apocalypse, and how our screens change how we see the world.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Oliver de la Paz

  • Dave Roderick
  • October 10, 2014
In Episode 6 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick chats with poet Oliver de la Paz about his new collection, Post Subject: A Fable, video games, and his weirdest writing habit.
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The Eyeball #32: Two Ways to Deal with the End of the World

  • Ryan Boudinot
  • June 28, 2010
If you’re like me, you grew up running various scenarios about what you’d do if the world were to end. Would you go nuts and run around in a stadium…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Road

  • Jen Sullivan Brych
  • March 23, 2009
This semester, I decided to teach The Road by Cormac McCarthy. After I got my desk copy, I was sitting on BART, on my way home, and I started rereading…
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