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In America, everybody, it seems, wants to be a success. Me, too. Recently, I confided to a family member that sometimes, in moments of deep despair (fortunately they are fairly…

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Corinne Lee and Finding an Antidote to America’s Toxicity

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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Otter

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 Rumpus Interview with Micah Perks

Micah Perks talks about her new novel, What Becomes Us, America’s cultural and mythical heritage, and why every novel is a political novel.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968

Used to see lots of psychedelic princes and princesses on Haight Street. Not many these days. But here were hundreds of the turned on and tuned in, dressed like birds and peacocks in heat.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #54: Jade Chang on The Wangs vs. the World

With a mix of humor, agility, and insight, Jade Chang’s debut novel, The Wangs vs. the World (HMH Books, October 2016), tells a fresh immigrant story. Charles Wang has left…

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Pernicious Individualism

If anything, Emerson’s transparent eyeball is now a webcam hacked by the NSA. Over at Lit Hub, Jonathon Sturgeon writes about the supposedly rampant and undying force of individualism in American…

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A Mélange of Loafing and Looking

In Leslie Jamison’s introduction to a new edition of Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days & Collect, excerpted over at Slate, the word “specimen” is rescued from its isolating, clinical connotations, instead becoming…

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Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness: A Review?

“The emphasis on craft, on procedures and techniques, is like the creation of perfectly safe nuclear reactors without acknowledging the necessity of radioactive matter for the core.”

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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #25: Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Success?

Corinne Lee and Finding an Antidote to America’s Toxicity

Otter

The Rumpus Interview with Micah Perks

Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #54: Jade Chang on The Wangs vs. the World

Pernicious Individualism

A Mélange of Loafing and Looking

Dean Young’s The Art of Recklessness: A Review?

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