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The Rumpus Interview with Mark Danielewski

Mark Danielewski talks about the "maddening energy of violence" and why he’s writing a 27–volume novel, starting with his first 850-page installment in the series, The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May.

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The Rumpus Interview with Susanne Paola Antonetta

Poet and memoirist Susanne Paola Antonetta discusses literary bias, feminism, and the origin of her nom de plume.

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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Under The Skin

Part misandry-based revenge fantasy, part science fiction mash-up, Under the Skin weasels its way into your reptilian brain from its first baffling frames.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Falling For The Femme Fatale

If power is going to shift toward equality, men have to see power less as an inherent right and more as something we can be incentivized to relinquish.

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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Minot

The Rumpus talks with Susan Minot about MFA programs, Joseph Kony, and throwing out big chunks of text.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Steve Almond

The Rumpus Book Club chats with Steve Almond about his new book, Against Football, One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, the complicity of fans in the violence of the NFL, the sports media's role in the discussion (or lack of one) and the difficulty of leaving a sport you love.

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Weekly Geekery

Do video games undermine empathy? Or are they just a comfortable scapegoat for a violent culture? Scientists search for an evolutionary reason for art. Spoiler alert: The answer is men…

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Tim Parrish

Tim Parrish talks to Steve Davenport about his deep descent into and escape from racism, why writing about people different from you is a risk worth taking, and the necessity of violence in our lives.

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Rumpus Original

Detroit: America’s Ciudad Juárez

Even before there was a war in Ciudad Juárez, I remember that Juárez had the feel of a war zone. It wasn’t until I visited Detroit for the first time that I rediscovered this feeling all over again.

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In the Ezo: Behind Closed Doors in Tbilisi

Things move quickly in Tbilisi, when they move at all.

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Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Tucson, Aurora, Newtown: An Etiology

“Guns are not simply tools or commodities; they are instruments of social power."

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Brother, This is Your Memory Cloak

I was stronger. By far I was the stronger of us both. A ballerina’s punch could’ve broken your nose, but I held back. We danced around the room like two tiny sparrows pecking at a fresh worm.

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