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The Last City I Loved: Austin
My first full-time job out of college was at a vanity publishing press in one of a thousand soulless office parks in northern Austin, Texas, the city to which my boyfriend and I had just moved from the...
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“And a new literature of drought may be emerging—one with room for stories that recall the past, but also for the possibility of trouble on a scale we’ve never seen before”According to Anna North,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Benjamin Parzybok
Set in the familiar not-so-distant-future, Benjamin Parzybok’s latest novel, Sherwood Nation, delivers a what if plotline of ecological disaster. His story unfolds in Portland, Oregon, amidst an...
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La Boheme Portlandia
A squat, split-level with a lit sign declares the Ethiopian Restaurant. Up two flights of steps is a deck where white twenty- and thirty-something hipsters smoke and joke, clink bottles and high-five....
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #9: Punk the Deadline!
Oh my god, I’m stuck again. A truck in the muck. A cat up a tree. An explorer in quicksand. Winnie the Pooh in the door of Rabbit’s house. Trying to birth a column and needing a Caesarean. Is there any...
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Climate Fiction and the Great American Desert
You think water is a California apocalyptic obsession: Jack Nicholson and his slashed nose in Chinatown. After all, a fourth of the state is actual desert, the Mohave’s drought creeping up to the...
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