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Debtors to a Mercy We Never Begged For
No, home is not as simple as the heart-shaped sandwiches Ma placed into my lunch bag on Valentine’s Day or the way my father confessed to listening to me sing shower showtunes or washing a car beside my brother as…
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The Rumpus 2023 Gift Guide
Okay, a quick confession—I’m terrible at gifting. I occasionally land on the mark, but most of the time my ideas are either wild guesses or something thrown together in a panic, and I often fall back on the classics .…
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“Good Buy” to All That: Pip Adam’s The New Animals
It’s imaginative fiction in a way that is jolting to the auto-fiction that is so prevalent today, and it allows Adam to make commentary on the disasters of human ambition.
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Letter to My Mentee (October 26, 2023)
“This,” I say to my daughter, choking up, “is civilization. Not banking, not technology. Not weaponry that kills without a fight. This,” I go on, seeing her face pale, “is what it means to be civilized.”
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No Quiet Endings: A Conversation with Elisa Gonzalez
I do think that a stranger’s vantage point can be valuable and create interesting reflections or ideas, but it feels important to doing that in a way that was ethical.
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The Mothership
Most of all, I hoped they’d see how well I turned out and regret ever sending me away.
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The Body Made Glorious in Awakening: A Conversation with Diane Gottlieb
These are writers who didn’t want to hide anymore. Instead, they knew how important it was to share their stories.
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Organic Sins: Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming
Have we made contact with the Leipzig of the late ’80s and early ’90s? Have we made contact with THAT German?
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Facing Redaction by Way of Art: A Conversation with Arthur Kayzakian
We’ve all had that feeling where we’ve felt unseen. I think that’s a big part of this book. Maybe what was taken away from us was attention.
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What to Read When You Want to Understand Precarity
American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division.
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December Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our December Letters in the Mail come from Molly Crabapple and Taylor Byas.
