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This Week in Short Fiction
This week at Guernica’s newly re-designed website, author Jean McGarry has a short story, “Come to Me,” about an abusive relationship and the tangled dynamics of power and devotion that can hold its victims in place. That was day four;…
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The Read Along: Christina Nichol
Christina Nichol, author of Waiting for the Electricity, takes a deep dive into Korean literature and catches up on some classics of anthropology and psychology.
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A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey
Donna Vorreyer reviews A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey today in Rumpus Poetry.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Camanchaca
HORN! Reviews brings us another beautiful illustrated review, this time of Diego Zúñiga’s Camanchaca, translated by Megan McDowell.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stacy Szymaszek
Poet Stacy Szymaszek discusses her most recent collection, Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals, the “notebook genre,” and claiming a city—ugly sites and all.
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Song of the Day: “Back Door Santa”
Soul—that mysterious orientation towards the world that seems to be frequently accompanied by a larger-than-life personality—is probably the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of Clarence Carter, that bombastic and passionate artist whose timeless music still echoes across…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden
Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce
Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce discuss the translation of Justine, Mondrup’s 2012 Danish novel about a young artist in Denmark.
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Next Letter for Kids: Tania Del Rio
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Tania Del Rio! Tania writes to us about her childhood mission to convince her parents to get a dog. Did she succeed? Subscribe by December 27 to find out! And don’t forget that a Letters for…
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself,…
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American Ulysses by Ronald C. White
Damien Ober reviews American Ulysses by Ronald C. White today in Rumpus Books.
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Sound Takes: A Charlie Brown Christmas
But what distinguishes Guaraldi from his superiors is his respect for the tried and true. If “O Tannenbaum” has worked for a few hundred years, maybe it’s worth kicking around the block a time or two.