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Rumpus Articles
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Longing for Home: A Conversation with Gemini Wahhaj
The diaspora is not just a longing for home but is also really complicated and beautiful and painful, this mysterious experience abroad.
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The First Book: Vanessa Chan
Ambition and achievement are great, but gratitude is the true source of joy.
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Friendship Sunset: A Conversation with Maria Hummel
Friendship is in some ways the purest expression of love. Friendship doesn’t ask for something back in the same way that other loves do.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hóngmén Banquet
“This is a homecoming,” he’d announced to the girl who took the order, “don’t let our mouths or cups go empty.”
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The First Book: Soraya Palmer
I thought about stories that saved me as a child by showing me what was possible. And then I thought about the stories that were missing.
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The First Book: A. Light Zachary
I gave up on “speaking truth to power” when I remembered our oppressors will never read my poetry.
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The First Book: Sebastián H. Páramo
I believe that’s what most writers want—to share an experience that adds complexity to life and resonates with something someone hasn’t been able to say yet.
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The First Book: Cory Allen
Believe in your story. Be persistent. Be creative and find ways around the roadblocks.
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“The psyche is a rich, vast junkyard:” A Conversation with Chin-Sun Lee
As a writer, anything pertaining to the psyche is a rich, vast junkyard I can poke around in to create narratives that align with my own obsessions.
