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The Present in Its Most Vivid Colors: A Conversation with Ben Shattuck

  • Barrett Bowlin
  • May 2, 2022
What does a growth of new grass on a hillside in spring make you feel? Is it a mixture of nostalgia and hope? Or what does a distant mountain range wreathed in a crown of clouds make you feel?
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Beauty in a Cold Season: Katherine May’s Wintering

  • Erin Winseman
  • March 17, 2021
As we go, we are breathlessly held in an in-between state, a limbo, a transition.
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Silence Is the Fertile Field: Talking with Fenton Johnson

  • Chris La Tray
  • June 29, 2020
Fenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
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Teeth: An Oral History

  • Thomas Dai
  • April 4, 2019
Few people can tell that my smile is literally fake.
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Redefining Manhood: A Conversation with James Hornor

  • Emma Irving
  • February 27, 2019
James Hornor discusses his new novel, VICTORIA FALLS.
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On Saviors and Superheroes: A Conversation with Adam Nemett

  • Rachel Lyon
  • December 10, 2018
Adam Nemett discusses his debut novel, WE CAN SAVE US ALL.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Walden

  • Kevin Thomas
  • October 20, 2017
While he doesn't offer all the answers we want, he reminds us that we don't see things as they are, which is key to anything.
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Corinne Lee and Finding an Antidote to America’s Toxicity

  • Alex Dueben
  • March 29, 2017
Poet Corinne Lee on writing her epic book-length poem Plenty and finding new ways to live in a rapidly changing world.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Day

  • Alice Roche Cody
  • February 13, 2017
Jon Day discusses his memoir, Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier, the bicycle as a symbol of gentrification, and the city as "a technology for living."
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #4: Keep the Change

  • Charles Kruger
  • August 26, 2016
This week, your Storming Bohemian has moved to a new house. Again. And so some reflections: There is much to be said for stability, I know. The steady quiet observation…
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Mommy Dearest

  • Theodora Messalas
  • July 1, 2016
We have an unfortunate tendency to let motherhood eclipse all aspects of a person’s identity—and then to turn around and call motherhood a faulty aspiration. Luckily there are moms like Antonia Malchik who write…
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Guns N' Roses -Paradise City | Rumpus Music
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Songs of Our Lives: Guns N’ Roses’s “Paradise City”

  • Elizabeth O'Brien
  • June 30, 2016
When people asked what I was going to do after high school, I said, “Leave town.” I wasn’t kidding. I hadn’t applied to a single college.
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