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  • Allyson McCabe
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Sound & Vision: Michael Hearst

  • Allyson McCabe
  • January 11, 2018
Allyson McCabe talks with Michael Hearst, a founding member of One Ring Zero, about how he got his start in music and writing, and what he's been working on recently.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: The Babble in the Bubble

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • December 19, 2017
To the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 13, 2017
The world’s oldest LGBTQ bookstore has opened a glory-hole inspired gallery display. Like any business, bookstores are influencing customers’ choices, and so what is literary is dictated, at least in…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 2, 2017
In Chicago, Aimee Levitt wonders how many bookstores she can visit in a single day to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. Meanwhile, in Seattle, Moira Macdonald explains how she planned on maximizing…
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Otter

  • Greg Wrenn
  • February 1, 2017
The emblem, not the animal, mattered. We swatted mosquitoes, made no pilgrimages to Vermont to see bears and moose. I wanted to get as close as possible to my potential animal totem.
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The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms | Rumpus Music
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Albums of Our Lives: The Front Bottoms’ The Front Bottoms

  • Mazzer D'Orazio
  • November 3, 2016
When I first heard Brian Sella’s sweet, pathetic voice sing these words, they seared a sense of guilt into me.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lee Clay Johnson

  • Maria Anderson
  • October 26, 2016
Lee Clay Johnson discusses his novel Nitro Mountain, growing up with bluegrass musician parents, and what people are capable of under the right set of circumstances.
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thao Nguyen’s Release

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • September 15, 2016
The thing I want to talk about is something I’m not in possession of anymore, but of all the things I’ve lost it’s the thing I think about the most.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 13, 2016
Chicago bookstores are worried about the arrival of a physical Amazon store. One bookstore is using clickbait tactics on social media to trick people into reading more books. Some people…
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A Ringing in Your Ears That Would Disappear by Morning

  • Natasha Kochicheril Moni
  • July 7, 2016
Soon, you would discover the local isle of misfits. Every town has at least one if you do some digging. Yours was The Boathouse.
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  • Deesha Philyaw
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Desiree Cooper

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • March 25, 2016
Desiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
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The Rumpus Interview with Darcey Steinke

  • Idra Novey
  • December 29, 2014
Darcey Steinke talks about her new novel, Sister Golden Hair, motherlessness, the Southern cult of femininity, and how becoming a woman has changed since she came of age in a small city in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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