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View ArticleComposing the Wilderness: An Essay on the Nested and Dynamic Model of Nature,...
In July, 2010, I delivered a keynote address at Goddard College’s MFA Writing residency in Port Townsend, Washington, on the theme “Composing the Wilderness.” This essay is included in an anthology of...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Richard Ford
You may have noticed Richard Ford’s new book, Let Me Be Frank With You, has a request for a title (as well as a pun). It’s no accident. Ford—who once again adopts the voice of Frank Bascombe, last...
View ArticleThe Saturday Rumpus Review of The Martian
Ridley Scott’s latest release, The Martian, is a spectacularly filmed, well-acted, technologically astute movie. Unfortunately, its technophilia almost takes over. You will spend a little over two...
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Like many of us post-election, I argued with someone on Facebook about politics. Let’s be real: it wasn’t really about politics, only inspired by it. A long-ago friend from high school has a low...
View ArticleSpotlight: Eamon Murphy’s “The Test”
“The Test” tells a brief, hypothetical history of the human civilization in the wake of an ominous interaction with an intergalactic deity. ***
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