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“Why don’t you dance with her?”

In the Guardian, novelist Ewan Morrison — whose newest novel is called Ménage — tosses out a list of literary ménages à trois, leading off with the Hemingway erotic novel (some would call it an...

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The Journal Of Albion Moonlight

“Carol wants me to write a novel: ‘You’ve met so many interesting people,’ she tells me.Very good, there was a young man and he could never get his hands on enough women.  That’s a novel.There was an...

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Henry Miller in Lotos Land: Paint as You Like, and Die Happy

Thinking back on his first stay in Hollywood, Miller often reminisced about the Green House, “where I made so many watercolors, sold them for a song or for an umbrella I had no use for, but where I...

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The Rumpus Interview with Gerald Stern

There’s a black and white photo in which the poet Stanley Kunitz lovingly holds Gerald Stern’s cheeks in both hands. It’s 1990. They’re looking into one another, and Kunitz says, “You’re the wilderness...

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Rhona Cleary: The Last Book I Loved, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Was there ever a place greyer, wetter or lonelier than Paris in the fall?For an Irish person, that’s a weighty question to consider. I guess that in some other incarnation of myself I might have found...

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Unreliable Narrators

In reviewing RENEGADE: Henry Miller and the Making of “Tropic of Cancer,” Jeanette Winterson explores mythmaking in cultural criticism, unearthing who and what gets ignored in the process.“There is...

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Henry Miller’s Disgust for Brooklyn

Henry Miller hated Brooklyn almost as passionately as he loved Big Sur and dirty sex. In “Henry Miller, Brooklyn Hater,” Alexander Nazaryan takes a look at Miller’s lifelong contempt for the borough.In...

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Writing on Writing

Let’s face it, writers love to write about writing. Whether it’s for the beginning writer or the seasoned vet looking for a renewed sense of inspiration, check out the ten greatest essays on writing...

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Strange Waters

The water is warm and ankle-deep. My sisters and I swam in it six hours ago and I know it’s salty, but low tide in Cape Cod Bay is nothing you’d want to put in your mouth. That’s irrational, because...

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The Rumpus Interview with Clarence Major

The difficulty with interviewing Clarence Major is deciding where to begin. His long and varied career encompasses numerous literary and artistic movements here and abroad. As a painter, poet, and...

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These Places Surround Me: Talking with Quintan Ana Wikswo

Quintan Ana Wikswo is the author of a story collection, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far, and a novel, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be, which traces the trajectories of an...

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A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay

One of the most subversive pleasures of the fantasy genre is that it lends readers room to imagine alternative storylines between its constructed worlds. For every canonical narrative, there are...

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