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Repel the Wind

  • Brea Salim
  • June 7, 2017
Why would I ask for my sanity from the Devil as I sleep walk, only to give it up again to the Holy Spirit?
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Sound & Vision: Mark Alan Stamaty

  • Allyson McCabe
  • December 1, 2016
Allyson McCabe talks with Mark Alan Stamaty, a Society of Illustrators four-time medalist, and the author-illustrator of ten books.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: 69 Love Songs

  • Ben Wirth
  • June 11, 2016
Everywhere people are shoving things into the ground—time capsules not to be opened until the year 2100, the more optimistic postmarked for 3000—letters to the future in the language of the now.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Kill Shot

  • Yvonne Conza
  • May 14, 2016
1964, a month prior to the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, a different home movie shot. Infant toss. Up-down. Plummeting. I’m ten months of age—picking up speed.
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Armored in Cars and Driving Unseen

  • Leah Williams
  • July 8, 2015
America is a beautiful country and it was beautiful before we got here. I’m not sure yet if we, the ancestral echo of colonizers, are a beautiful people. I often have doubts.
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The Rumpus Combo with Sheila McClear

  • Aimee DeLong
  • August 29, 2011
Sheila McClear started stripping because she needed the money. She kept doing it for more complex reasons. 
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No Touching of Girls

  • Aimee DeLong
  • August 29, 2011
Gawker contributor and New York Post reporter, Shelia McClears tells of working at the Times Square peepshows in her new book, The Last of the Live Nude Girls.
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“The post-crisis minority mantra”

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 9, 2010
“Please don’t let it be a Muslim or Pakistani dude. Please don’t let it be a Muslim or Pakistani dude.” Over at Salon, Wajahat Ali tells us what goes through…
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