This American Life Archives

“Actually, I’m Not Grateful”: A Conversation with Stephanie Foo

I found myself as a potential representative of a larger group, which had no representative. There wasn’t a first-person story about Complex Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, so I thought, “I know how to do this.”

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The Rumpus Interview with Blair Braverman

Blair Braverman discusses her latest book, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North, gendered travel narratives, and the pressure to write about personal trauma.

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Love Letters and the Long Con

This is a story is about a con that unfolded very slowly over two decades. When the con was finally exposed, some of the victims defended the people who had…

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The Rumpus Interview with Etgar Keret

Writer Etgar Keret talks about his new memoir The Seven Good Years, the early criticism he faced as a writer, and the surreal that is always waiting.

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Serial: A Rumpus Roundup

This American Life spinoff Serial is a nonfiction podcast told over multiple episodes. Premiering back in October, Serial explores the case of Adnan Syed, who has been sentenced to life in…

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FOUND Book Release Party in LA!

If you’re in Los Angeles this Saturday, stop by the Bootleg Theater to celebrate the release of FOUND Magazine: THE EARLY YEARS, a compilation of the best stuff from the…

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This American Life, Moving Forward

Ira Glass loses his voice; Ira Glass gets it back: The New York Times reports on This American Life’s risky split from PRI and venture into the world of independent programming (and don’t…

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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

Kim Fu reviews David Rakoff's LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.,

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Helping Harper High

Previously, we blogged about Harper High School, where twenty-nine students were shot in a single school year, eight of whom died—not in what we think of as a “school shooting,”…

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“It’s A War Zone Around There”

After a year marked by several horrific mass shootings (on the heels of other years marked by somewhat fewer horrific mass shootings), gun violence has been on all our minds.…

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The Rumpus Interview with Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman’s The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them combines genres to tell stories about Batuman’s adventures as a graduate student.

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This American Life Retraction

This American Life has retracted its story “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” Ira Glass says that airing the episode was a mistake, asserting that Mike Daisey–whose one-act play was…

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