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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: There Will Be Blood
It is 1980, I am twelve years old, and there is so much blood.Not mine, but my younger brother Adam’s, who is lying on the floor at my feet, crumpled and stunned, and cradling his head in his little...
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The Rumpus Interview with Colin D. Halloran
In recent years, there has been a tremendous literary response to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from such celebrated luminaries as Phil Klay, Ben Fountain, Brian Turner, Siobhan Fallon, and many...
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Biotech might give Icarus his wings. Solar eclipses, laser physicists… and mosquitoes? New Muslim voices in science fiction. Happy 50th, Star Trek. This unexpected writer made you what are. Oh, and...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #77: People Give Me Things, Part One
Shockingly, it is now almost two years ago that I boasted on Facebook that I would review in this space any recording sent to me by the general public—a rash offer that came about because I was sort of...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sumita Chakraborty
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Sumita Chakraborty about her debut collection Arrow (Alice James Books, September 2020), how poems find their own form, the challenges of maintaining energy in...
View ArticleThe World Is on Fire: Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Accept Schopenhauer’s view that the world is an idea—and in these days when everything feels in flux such a notion is perhaps easier to swallow—and what poets do takes on new importance. Rowan Ricardo...
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