writing
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The Dangers Of Making Art
“To be dangerous is to remind the world of what our humanity means to us, rather than allowing everyone to settle into complacency. To challenge us to dig deeper into reflecting on our lives, instead of just accepting what we’re…
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A Shoe-Seller Speaks
I met Lauren (whose last name we are suppressing here) at a writing workshop in Provincetown almost fifteen years ago. She was shy, funny, brilliant, and very, very talented, and she dressed like one of those kids who had been…
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Don’t Get Me Down: Reading and Writing Depression
In September 2008, David Foster Wallace stepped out onto his patio and did what most of us occasionally imagine doing, but hopefully never go through with.
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Tandem Reading
I’m a huge fan of tandem reading: reading two books at a time, one of which is usually a novel, the other of which is usually a book of stories, essays, poems, fragments or lyric randomness. I find the dialogue…
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Action! Violence! Jilted Lovers! Pulp History!
David Talbot, former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, came into Red Hill Books recently to drop off his latest creation, Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story Of The Man Who Saved America, one of the first installments in the Pulp History series…
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The Rumpus Interview with Megan Stack
The six years Megan Stack spent in the Middle East reporting for the LA Times began as a sort of emergency assignment and ended with Every Man In This Village Is A Liar, her indelible memoir of an education in…
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And This Is Word For Word: The Theory of Relatability and Rethinking Justin Long’s Face
There was a night last month where I couldn’t sleep. I had to be up early for another full day of screenings and filing at the Toronto International Film Festival, but my mind was cycling through a generic course of…
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GENERATION GAP #6: An Advice Columnist Asks For Advice
Although we all talked about keeping in touch, we knew it was really a goodbye dinner.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club with Timothy Donnelly
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Timothy Donnelly about his poetry collection, The Cloud Corporation.
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“You could say I’m self-employed, but that’s not quite accurate.”
Founding editor Stephen Elliott on working, not working, and being a writer in San Francisco.
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Febos and Marcus on Memiorville
In this conversation, Melissa Febos makes a good point: What’s great about writers talking with writers is that they talk about writing.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Gould
I don’t know how much braver than you I’m feeling these days,” she wrote back when I first emailed her.