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The Rumpus needs a REDESIGN

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Today, we’re launching this $10K crowdfunding campaign to redesign the magazine’s website. We’ve been running on the same WordPress template since the site launched 14 years ago, which makes it like 1,400 in internet-years.

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Inheritance, Family, and Beauty: A Conversation with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s debut novel Glassworks (Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2023) follows one family through four generations. The story begins in 1910 with the wealthy young philanthropist Agnes Carter, and then follows her descendants, both in blood and in spirit, up until the present time. Each person’s story builds on those that came before it, creating a […]

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Broadening the Scope of the Environmental Canon: An  Interview with Camille T. Dungy

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Some books defy categories. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) by poet Camille T. Dungy pushes the limits of what readers might expect from any genre. Is it memoir or environmental literature?The book covers so much terrain: Black history, gardening in the West, motherhood, and the care and cultivation […]

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