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What to Read When Life is in Chaos

How Books Can Be a Framework When Everything Else Feels Like It’s Falling Apart

Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Ronny James

“What is that?” your mother said, taking another drag from her cigarette.

Each Of Us A Pale Blue Dot

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…

Funny Women

Funny Women: A Notice for Library Patrons

Questions? Comments? Too bad.

Essays

Rumpus Prize in Nonfiction, First Place: Daniel B. Summerhill

A tight plot of land with poverty gripping the neck of its residents even tighter. The same way America held off on recognizing street gangs as an issue until blood was spilt outside of the hood in 1988 in Westwood Village, Oakland officials knew enclosing us that way was a type of genocide.

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The Rumpus Prize in Poetry, First Place: Georgio Russell

"Ode to the Black Man Nod"

Comics

Where Flowers Grow

Mama, how do taste bugs get into your mouth?

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Announcing the Winners of The Rumpus Prize

The winners of the Rumpus Prize!

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Long-term Art Project

Fragments

On Tove Jansson’s Eccentrics and Oddballs

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Essays

To Adopt a Grandparent

Home is a Word Unspoken

Pigs Rooting for Truffles

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Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: Casserole

Rumpus Original Fiction: The Sun Never Sets on the Sunrise Highway

Rumpus Original Fiction: Twinsies

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What to Read When

What to Read When You Can’t Catch a Break

What to Read When You’re Looking for Romance

What to Read When You’re a True Believer

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Poetry

Rumpus Original Poetry: Katherine Tunning

Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress

National Poetry Month: Hala Alyan

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Columns

ENOUGH: The Last Beautiful Day

Funny Women: Advice for Midlife Lady Writers

We Are More: Istanbul

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Reviews

“Three Initiates”: On Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L

Little by Little: Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia

We Must All Transition: Paul B. Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi

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Interviews

The First Book: Veena Dinavahi

The Tightrope Walk of Making Comics: A Conversation with María Medem

The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams

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