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Through a Glass Darkly
“I don’t know where we got the idea that helping sick people means keeping them away from the jaws of death at all costs…”Beauty Salon, by Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín, originally published in...
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Sex and the Witty
There’s Something Wrong with Sven combines imaginative leaps worthy of Calvino and Vonnegut with tragicomic irreverence of the George Saunders variety.With all the hyper-sexed characters and situations...
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Waterworld
Loss and longing sit side-by-side with unexpected humor in Laura van den Berg’s stories, reminding readers of the strange things we encounter every day.Mythic creatures abound in Laura van den Berg’s...
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SPACE AVALANCHE: Evolution is awesome
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The Duke of Discomfort
David Means’s fictional worlds are ominous, pre-apocalyptic, the hiss after a match is struck but before it ignites.A few of the universe’s hard truths: We all care what other people think of us. You...
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Folk Talk: fish story
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Paper Trumpets #20: The Student Sound
Click image to enlarge: ***Notes on this collage:The main ingredient of this collage is a compilation album cover for pop songs—or “the student sound”—that I found in a resale shop in Portland. The...
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The Rumpus Interview with Bradley Somer
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains lies one of Canada’s best kept secrets: The Banff Centre for Arts and the Writer’s Guild of Alberta annual retreat—ten days of high altitude writing, reading, and...
View ArticleThe Noble Fish and the Man Who Loved Them
Nothing, in the opinion of a New Yorker, can exceed boiled sheep’shead served up at a sumptuous dinner. . . This noble fish . . . the feats of hooking and pulling him in, furnish abundant materials for...
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D & K’s Fried Fish
Along the marshy coastlands of Georgia, known as the Coastal Empire, seafood is a staple in the local diet. Below is one family’s recipe for crispy, moist, fried fish. Ingredients:6-10 spot-tailed...
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The Word Cage: Fish
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Don’t dis slang—it’s older than you are. Regarding the pain of fish (and humanities-loving robots). Fake scientists are real. Sexism messes up men’s mental health, too. Aimee Bender and the Ladies of...
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Joe at the Aquarium
I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues. It was two years before he’d have his own wheelchair and four years before he died. That day, my parents and I drove...
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Glitter and Tattoos and Campiness: An Interview with Gabe Montesanti
During Gabe Montesanti’s final MFA workshop at Washington University in 2018, the students provided other members of their cohort with lists of topics they were banned from using in their final...
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