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I Am Here to Make Friends

  • Chelsea Lane Campbell
  • November 2, 2017
I’m not here to wallow in what feels like our new dystopia, no. Me? I am here, to rest up before the next bout. I am here to watch The Price Is Right and make friends.
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The Rumpus Interview with Shawn Vestal

  • Alex Dueben
  • June 10, 2016
Shawn Vestal discusses his new novel Daredevils, Evel Knievel, growing up in a mainstream Mormon family, and what he thinks of the American West.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Christina Stoddard

  • Renee Simms
  • February 27, 2016
These are things we don’t talk about and I’m here to talk about them. You will either come along with me on that—or not.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Like Mike

  • Dave Mulis
  • October 9, 2015
All the same, I’m as much a slave to necessity as anyone here. Fear and desire rule the heart. The paycheck has me leashed and basically obedient.
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Housesitting

  • Marilyn Abildskov
  • September 25, 2015
When you arrived, you reached under the mat to pick up the keys in an envelope. Inside, a note on the kitchen counter said help yourself to anything in the pantry or fridge.
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Where to Shelve Scripture?

  • Dinah Fay
  • February 11, 2015
At the New Yorker, Rollo Romig examines the unique position of scripture as literary genre through the lens of history, and with the help of Avi Steinberg’s recent nonfiction title The Lost…
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The Rumpus Interview with M.E. Thomas

  • Cynthia-Marie Marmo O'Brien
  • September 23, 2014
M.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, discusses writing a memoir, being a lawyer and a Mormon, the unreliability of memory—and, of course, being a high-functioning sociopath.
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