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The Habit of Art: A Year of Daily Painting
What happens when you commit to painting—or to any form of creating—every day for a year? You exist in the world differently. You see objects and shapes and colors in ways you’ve never seen before....
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Music and Me”
Whenever anyone asks what kind of music I like, I freeze up. The question’s always felt too personal when asked by a stranger taking my cab or ordering a drink at my bar, and too open-ended when asked...
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The Clockwork Job Thief
I pause at Ave Rose’s table at the third annual AutomataCon in Morristown, New Jersey when I overhear her saying that she once sold a glass cabinet of mechanized butterflies to a collector for ten...
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Writing That Hurts: On Mark Doty’s Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
I spent the last year of graduate school meeting weekly with four other writers in our professor’s house on faculty row, a street of low-slung brick houses a short walk from campus. My professor was...
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Pronk: On Still Life Painting and the Price of Showing Off
When people ask me why I came to Amsterdam, I tell them I’m on a lifelong quest to find out who could paint the best peeled lemon. In the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, I breeze past the Rembrandts and...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Katie Alice Greer’s Found Magazine
When I was in college, I switched majors a few times, and ended up getting my degree in political science. I thought maybe I’d be a senator one day or something, but once I got up close to that world...
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The Habit of Art: Another Year of Daily Painting
A year ago, I asked the question: What happens when you commit to painting—or to any form of creating—every day for a year? Now I guess it’s time to ask: What happens when you do it again for another...
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Interestingness Is Always There: Talking with Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell’s first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is a reflective call-to-arms and seminal anti-optimization creed for our increasingly digitized times. For readers...
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy
I stood transfixed and I stared at the two faces in the painting. Covers up to the chin, tousled brown hair, turned toward one another, closeness reflected in the bloom of their cheeks. I wondered if...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #209: Lisa Olstein
Lisa Olstein’s first book of prose, Pain Studies, is a lyric essay about many things including living with a migraine disorder. Olstein is the other of four books of poetry, including Lost Alphabet and...
View ArticleInhabitation and Invocation: Candice Wuehle’s Death Industrial Complex
Early in Death Industrial Complex (Action Books, April 2020), Candice Wuehle writes, “i’m going to speak slowly / in the language of the mise en abyme, of Spiralism.” This collection is a testimony to...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Music and Me”
Whenever anyone asks what kind of music I like, I freeze up. The question’s always felt too personal when asked by a stranger taking my cab or ordering a drink at my bar, and too open-ended when asked...
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Are you an artist looking to build your portfolio? Hoping to gain experience illustrating online? Or, do you just want to create some art occasionally for important, beautiful writing? The Rumpus is...
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How Hunger Changes a House: A Conversation with Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp’s fifth poetry collection, Took House, explores the generative space between silence and speech, hunger and appetite, and intimacy and absence. The poet hovers over landscapes and objects;...
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Art, Love, and Resistance in 1940s Europe: Talking with Meg Waite Clayton
Meg Waite Clayton is an award-winning writer whose eighth novel, The Postmistress of Paris, released last week. Her previous novel, The Last Train to London, was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award...
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