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The Rumpus Interview with M.E. Thomas

M.E. Thomas began writing her singular memoir Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight thinking that stories from her life were not enough to be included. She talked to me about...

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The Battle Rages On

At Flavorwire, Jonathan Sturgeon continues the “literary” and “genre” war, offering a new perspective grounded in the marketplace:So what’s really going on here? Well, it isn’t the genre of prose that...

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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

Things I will never forget about Find Me: the website on which you learn whether your loved ones are alive or dead is WeAreSorryForYourLoss.com; a plastic rabbit mask and the defeated, injured eye...

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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...

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In a World…

With so many contemporary young adult novels taking place in dystopian settings, we’re beginning to wonder whether it’s even possible to come of age in a world that isn’t on the brink of collapse. Soon...

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All Mixed Up

Is The Hunger Games feminist? Does it matter? Flavorwire’s Sarah Seltzer wonders whether we’re asking the wrong questions:It seduces us with a good-vs.-evil premise, but then muddies the entire thing...

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Sci-Fi =/= Unrealistic

Tired of being met with condescension when she says she likes science fiction, Justina Ireland argues for science fiction’s importance in understanding very real contemporary issues faced by...

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The Slow Fall of the Hot Heroine

In eighth grade, every weekday afternoon was church. Held after Dragonball Z and before Gundam Wing on Cartoon Network’s “Toonami” block. The Sacred Time Slot of Sailor Moon. These were the thirty...

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The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay is a force. In the past six years, she has had five major works come out—a novel (An Untamed State), two short story collections (Ayiti and Difficult Women), an essay collection (Bad...

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What to Read When Trying to Figure Out Who You Are

Growing up I didn’t have many real-life role models for how to be a girl. Because we were constantly on the move, I didn’t have many friends. I was determined not to be like my mother, and my four...

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