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Cigarettes and Wittgenstein: The Rumpus Interview with Sean Thor Conroe

  • Miah Jeffra
  • February 23, 2022
The [novel's] main question would be, How does a man stuck in resentment and anger at others and the world, who lacks a sense of belonging and sense of his usefulness in the world, find his way out of that?
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The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps

  • Naomi Kanakia
  • June 16, 2021
The key insight is that names, and indeed all boundaries, involve a hierarchy.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kimberly Grey

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 29, 2020
Kimberly Grey discusses her new collection, SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING.
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Desire Makes Storytellers of Us All: Anthropica by David Hollander

  • Hugh Sheehy
  • November 25, 2020
What a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
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Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • December 1, 2017
Matthews is a poet of multivalent ways and hows, an artist at home in the riddle of refusal.
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Ritvo

  • Sarah Blake
  • September 21, 2016
Max Ritvo passed away on August 23, 2016. Earlier this summer, he spoke with Sarah Blake about his debut collection Four Reincarnations, writing with and about cancer, and how language is a game.
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Why Internet Comments Suck

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 3, 2015
Wittgenstein explains why discourse on the Internet sucks. And it’s not just because of your crazy uncle. So, language is quicksand—except it’s not. Unlike the parlor tricks of the deconstructionists who…
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Through the Past Darkly

  • Dawn Trook
  • April 20, 2009
Brian Teare’s second book sorts through the past and charts a new path for the future of poetry.
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Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed

  • Marianne Rogoff
  • April 6, 2009
Mark Blatte’s hip-hop-crime novel brings a touch of philosophy to New York’s mean streets
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