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Into Thin Air (The Women on Flight 305)

  • Emily Nelson
  • November 18, 2021
The only thing different about Dan Cooper was his bomb.
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Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North

  • Yasmin Roshanian
  • June 18, 2021
Anna North discusses her new novel, OUTLAWED.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #68: David Kukoff

  • David Breithaupt
  • January 26, 2017
“To read,” wrote E.M. Cioran, “is to let someone else do the work for you.” Indeed, David Kukoff has done extensive footwork collecting an array of varied experiences to give…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: This American Paradise

  • Deborah Jackson Taffa
  • November 6, 2016
The thing about Paradise is this—yours can’t be mine, and mine can’t be yours. Paradise exists in the imagination, and imagination is our only privacy.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alexander Chee

  • Gina Rodriguez
  • February 3, 2016
Alexander Chee talks about opera, the Wild West, and the charismatic women of 19th-century France that inspired his new novel The Queen of the Night.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • December 18, 2015
It’s December, that magical time of year when newspapers and websites across the globe unveil their “Best of the Year” lists. Valeria Luiselli has been all over them with her…
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On the Road Again

  • Roxie Pell
  • September 19, 2014
What gives the road movie (or, more broadly, the epic voyage) its staying power across cultures and time is an intrinsic narrative structure with a built-in beginning and end in the form of a starting point and destination.
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The Rumpus Review of Calipatria

  • Heather Quinn
  • May 30, 2014
At the heart of the short film Calipatria is an ever-present sense of malice that hangs over the landscape and surrounds this young woman, on her own in this ominous desert town.
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