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Sunday Scaries: Personal Statement
When Dad was alive I never thought much about his teeth. Before he got sick, and even after, he would do this thing where he’d say, all serious, “Do I have anything in my teeth?” and then he’d smile real…
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Embroidered Art: Diana Weymar on David Naimon
Twice each month, artist Diana Weymar will dig into the Rumpus archives and make a piece of art — hand-embroidered — from one of our previously published pieces. This one, a quote from David Naimon, is from this interview he…
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12 of the Best Book Covers of October 2026
Plus designer Jared Bartman on anachronism and the cover of Rebecca Perry’s novel May We Feed the King.
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Cuba, como los bonsáis
La Cuba a la que regresamos este verano, él por primera vez, yo una vez más, era una Cuba domada. Como una leona de circo.
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No Longer Saving Wounded Birds: A Conversation with Marie Manilla
An earlier version of the memoir was longer and included chapters that truly might have caused pain or embarrassment to friends and family. Often those chapters weren’t directly about me, but were about people close to me who suffered in…
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“All My Books are Love Stories”: A Conversation with Yiyun Li
The key to me is not to write from the outside. If you write a character from the outside, you tend to draw the outline of the character. You reach the limit very soon. You can have definitions and descriptions,…
