The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins
“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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Notable Chicago: 5/10–5/16
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Nurture Rupture: On Motherhood, Writing, and Gender Inequality
Do I have a public self that is separate from my private self? I’m not so certain about that.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash discusses THE DAKOTA WINTERS.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #86: Transcendentalism!
The point is not to control the medium, the point is to interact with the medium, to find out what’s natural to it and what’s native to it and work with that, respond to that.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #83: On George
There really is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t stop at some moment and think about George Harrison.
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A long list of known and respected musicians from a wide variety of genres have signed a petition against the systemic enabling of illegal streaming provided by entities such as YouTube and Google. The petition urges Congress to reform the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects companies that host user sharing from being held accountable […]
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Joshua Shenk
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Joshua Wolf Shenk about his new book, Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs, creative intimacy, how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together, and the myth of the solo genius.
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