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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

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.’
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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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Orbital
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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?”…
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Funny Women: A Notice for Library Patrons

  • Sara Masciola
  • June 6, 2025
Questions? Comments? Too bad.
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Rumpus Prize for Nonfiction
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The Rumpus Prize in Nonfiction, First Place: Daniel B. Summerhill

  • Daniel B. Summerhill
  • June 5, 2025
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

  • Georgio Russell
  • June 5, 2025
"Ode to the Black Man Nod"
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Where Flowers Grow

  • Sharleigh Crittenden and Helena Pantsis
  • June 5, 2025
Mama, how do taste bugs get into your mouth?
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Announcing the Winners of The Rumpus Prize

  • The Rumpus
  • June 4, 2025
The winners of the Rumpus Prize!
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