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Finding Baldwin

  • Ifeanyichukwu Eze
  • June 17, 2025
The books are on the floor, side by side. I begin to pick them up one by one. Lying beneath two old books is this one. The author’s name screams in white on a red strip at the top of the front cover.
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Take A Risk and Stand at The Edge of a Cliff: A Conversation with Jen Michalski

  • Wendy J. Fox
  • June 16, 2025
In her newest novel, All This Can Be True (Keylight Books, 2025), Michalski makes readers want to break out the black eyeliner and catch a show headlining (the excellently named) Clit Girls.
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The Rumpus Prize in Fiction, First Place: Aimee LaBrie

  • Aimee LaBrie
  • June 16, 2025
The first part went as expected: the countback with the anesthesiologist, the prepping of the surgical area, the instruments arranged just so.
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We Are More: Crossing at Allenby

  • Farah Alhaddad
  • June 16, 2025
While deception had always been a feature of warfare, the emergence of radio communication, ciphers, and submarines created a new theater for subterfuge in the ‘Great War.’
The Unmapping
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What to Read When Life is in Chaos

  • Denise S. Robbins
  • June 13, 2025
How Books Can Be a Framework When Everything Else Feels Like It’s Falling Apart
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Ronny James

  • Anthony Koranda
  • June 9, 2025
“What is that?” your mother said, taking another drag from her cigarette.
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Each Of Us A Pale Blue Dot

  • Dan Tovrov
  • June 6, 2025
An alien observes the little H-shaped space station orbiting an increasingly dilapidated earth and wonders, What are these humans up to? “Why do they go nowhere but round and round?” it asks, proverbially. It’s a good question. One that the astronauts on the space station often wonder…
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Funny Women: A Notice for Library Patrons

  • Sara Masciola
  • June 6, 2025
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Long-term Art Project
  • Gabe Montesanti
  • May 8, 2025
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  • Jenni Belotserkovsky and Sarah Yahm
  • April 3, 2025
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  • Emily Webber, Rachel Luria, and Beverly Luria
  • March 7, 2025
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  • Josiah Roberts
  • May 6, 2025
Home is a Word Unspoken
  • Tamar Mekredijian
  • April 18, 2025
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  • Jenny Li
  • April 15, 2025
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Casserole
  • Katie McIvor
  • May 16, 2025
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  • Connor White
  • May 12, 2025
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  • May 5, 2025
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  • May 9, 2025
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  • April 11, 2025
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  • Jeff Kass
  • March 28, 2025
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Katherine Tunning
  • Katherine Tunning
  • May 15, 2025
Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress
  • Robert Manaster
  • May 7, 2025
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  • April 30, 2025
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ENOUGH: The Last Beautiful Day
  • Jen Shepherd
  • May 13, 2025
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  • Jody Callahan
  • May 9, 2025
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  • Eman Quotah
  • April 24, 2025
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  • Erin Vachon
  • May 13, 2025
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  • May 6, 2025
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  • April 29, 2025
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  • Veena Dinavahi
  • May 14, 2025
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  • May 12, 2025
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  • May 5, 2025
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