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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Kill Bob
When I was 15 years old, I came to associate evil with a jean-jacketed, gray-haired, man-monster. His name was Bob and although his rapes and murders of young women were restricted to the all-too-real...
View ArticleThe Prose and Poetry of Idra Novey
I find the more furtively I move between genres, the more I surprise myself as a writer. Moving between genres, you carry curious things over and also carry them away. I like the gray areas between...
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Neurons act like Donald Trump.A beetle named for both Darwin and David Sedaris? It’s quiz time.Holy leaping electric eels!Books you can binge.The ultimate superhero is not Batman, says science.Martin...
View ArticleThe First Trans Superhero
I send my scripts to at least three trans people every time, to make sure I am not speaking incorrectly, and that I am touching on points that would be realistic. It helps very much that our colourist,...
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Boy of My Youth
I was never good at being like other boys. I was often lost in daydreams and didn’t know how to make friends. When the other neighborhood kids were outside playing Keep Away I was alone in my room...
View ArticleOffice Space, the Final Frontier
In A.O. Scott’s eyes, summer blockbusters and workplace sitcoms aren’t that different these days:Part of what makes work tolerable is the idea that it is heroic, the fantasy that repetitive and...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Tara Betts
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. –Audre Lorde I reached out to author and professor Dr. Tara Betts to talk about the...
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Out of the Trenches: The Rumpus Review of Wonder Woman
Moments before climbing out of an Allied trench on the Western Front to face German firepower, Wonder Woman, played by Gal Gadot, pauses for an unusual step in preparation: she lets her hair down. It’s...
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On Saviors and Superheroes: A Conversation with Adam Nemett
We Can Save Us All is many things. It’s a climate change apocalypse novel. It’s a love story—or, more specifically, a love triangle story. It’s a fabricated history of drug-addled college students who...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eric Tran
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Eric Tran about his debut full-length collection The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (Autumn House Press, March 2020), activating the spiritual through poetry,...
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